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• Bear Flag Revolt, 1846
• Kearny's Expedition, 1846

• Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• With Stevenson to California, 1846 (California Relations #36; Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1954), by James Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Stephen W. Kearny and the Conquest of California (1846-7) (reprinted from Annual Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California v8; 1911), by V. Mott Porter
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• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California (reprint of Hughes's book on the expedition, with additional material; Topeka, KS: W. E. Connelley, 1907), by John Taylor Hughes, ed. by William Elsey Connelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit, Joaquin Murrieta: His Exploits in the State of California (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., 1925), by Ireneo Paz, trans. by Frances P. Belle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
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• The transition period of California : from a province of Mexico in 1846 to a state of the American union in 1850 (Whitaker and Ray Co., 1901), by Samuel H. Willey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Messenger of destiny: the California adventures, 1846-1847, of Archibald H. Gillespie, U. S. Marine Corps. (J. Howell-Books, 1960), by Werner H. Marti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doniphan's expedition : containing an account of the conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's [sic] overland expedition to California; Doniphan's campaign against the Navajos; his unparalleled march upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the operations of General Price at Santa Fe. With a sketch of the life of Col. Doniphan. (J.A. & U.P. James, 1850), by John Taylor Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years 1849-50. (Arno Press, 1973), by Samuel Curtis Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The establishment of state government in California 1846-1850. (The Macmillan company, 1914), by Cardinal Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The search for authority in California. (Biobooks, 1960), by Woodrow James Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Français en Californie (Grégoire, Tauzy, 1884), by Daniel Levy (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Brown Ide, Bear Flagger. (J. Howell, 1962), by Fred Blackburn Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Montgomery and the Portsmouth. (J. Howell, 1958), by Fred Blackburn Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sutter's own story : the life of General John Augustus Sutter and the history of New Helvetia in the Sacramento valley (Putnam, 1936), by John Augustus Sutter and Erwin Gustav Gudde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845-1847 : a sailor's view of the naval conquest of California (Yale University Press, 1963), by Joseph T. Downey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military governments in California, 1846-1850; with a chapter on their prior use in Louisiana, Florida, and New Mexico. (Clark Co., 1963), by Théodore Grivas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Helvetia diary : a record of events kept (The Grabhorn Press in Arrangement with The Society of California Pioneers, 1939), by H. P. Van Sicklen, William N. Loker, W. F. Swasey, John Bidwell, and John Augustus Sutter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• German interest in California before 1850 ... (1921), by George P. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Filings from an old saw; reminiscences of San Francisco and California's conquest (J. Howell, 1956), by Joseph T. Downey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Translation and digest of such portions of the Mexican laws of March 20th and May 23d, 1837, as are supposed to be still in force and adapted to the present condition of California (Printed at the Office of the Alta California, 1849), by California (Province), William Edward Petty Hartnell, and J. Halleck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of the late Rear-Admiral John Drake Sloat, of the United States navy, who took possession of California and raised the American flag at Monterey on July 7th, 1846. Comp. from the most authentic sources of family history [etc.] ... (Carruth & Carruth, printers, 1902), by Edwin A. Sherman and Sloat Monument Association of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keel and saddle: a retrospect of forty years of military and naval service. (J. R. Osgood and company, 1872), by Joseph W. Revere (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California. ([Niles? Calif.], 1904), by Country Club of Washington Township (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gentlemen rovers, by E. Alexander Powell ... (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by E. Alexander Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of John M. Clayton of Delaware in defense of the bill to organize territorial governments in Oregon, California and New Mexico, popularly known as the territorial or compromise bill : delivered in the Senate of the United States, August 3, 1848. (s.n., 1848), by John M. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California [1846-1849 ̈By Rev. Walter Colton, U. S. N. .. (H. W. Derby & co., 1852), by Walter Colton and California (page images at HathiTrust)
• California : a romantic story for young people (J. H. Sears, 1926), by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating copies of Commodore Stockton's despatches, relating to the military and naval operations in California. ([Washington, 1849), by United States. Navy Dept and Robert Field Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the life of Com. Robert F. Stockton (Derby & Jackson, 1856), by Samuel J. Bayard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some forgotten heroes and their place in American history (C. Scribner's sons, 1922), by Edward Alexander Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• California claims. ([Washington?, 1848), by United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California." (The author, 1878), by Samuel C. Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• California claims. August 8, 1848 ... Report ([Washington, D.C., 1848), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the senators and representatives elect from California : requesting, in the name of the people of that State, the admission of California into the Union : accompanied by a certified copy of the constitution adopted by the people of California, and the credentials of the senators elect from that State, March 13, 1850 ([Washington, 1850), by California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the senators and representatives elect from the state of California : asking the admission of said state into the Union, together with the credentials of said representatives, and a certified copy of the constitution of said state. ([Washington, D.C. :, 1850), by California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1811-1878 (A.C. Vroman, 1900), by Benjamin Davis Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Captain Henry S. Turner on the Kearny-Fremont controversy (Cole-Holmquist Press, 1958), by Henry Smith Turner, Dwight Lancelot Clarke, Zamorano Club, and Roxburghe Club of San Francisco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice of a mass meeting of the citizens of San Francisco : held June 12, 1849 in Portsmouth Square (T.W. Norris, 1943), by Thomas W. Norris and Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost and living cities of the California gold rush : a motoring and historical guide to the principal early mining camps, first issued at Coloma, California, Jan. 24, 1948, on the centenary of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, 1948), by Philip Johnston and Phil Townsend Hanna (page images at HathiTrust)
• M.G. Vallejo's release from Fort Sutter, August 2nd, 1846 (T.W. Norris, 1937), by Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Feather River in '49 and the fifties (Reprinted by M. Mansfield, 1948), by George C Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frost's pictorial history of California. History of the state of California. From the period of the conquest of Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America ... (Derby and Miller, 1853), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Insurrection against the military government in New Mexico and California, 1847 and 1848 : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 5, 1900, a report on the insurrection against the military government in New Mexico and California in the years 1847 and 1848 (s.n., 1900), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Länder Amerika's (Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1849), by Gustav Remak and S. Augustus Samuel Augustus Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of the late Rear Admiral John Drake Sloat, of the United States Navy, who took possession of California and raised the American flag at Monterey on July 7th, 1846. (Carruth & Carruth, printers, 1902), by Edwin A. Sherman and Sloat Monument Association of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Execution of Col. Crabb and associates (James B. Steedman, printer, 1858), by United States Department of State and United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young man, and other papers. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854), by Thomas De Quincey and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Joseph Mullin, of New York, on the bill to establish a government for the territory of California : delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 26, 1849. (J. & G. S. Gideon, 1849), by Joseph Mullin (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and the gold mania (Colt Press, 1945), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political development of California : 1846-1850 (1922), by Mildred Chick Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who conquered California? (S. Ide, 1880), by William Brown Ide and Simeon Ide (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doniphan's expedition : containing an account of the conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's overland expdition to California; Doniphan's campaign against the Navajos; his unparralleled march upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the operations of General Price at Sante Fé: with a sketch of the life of Col. Doniphan ... (J. A. & U. P. James, 1848), by John Taylor Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doniphan's Expedition. Account of the conquest of New Mexico, General Kearney's overland expedition to California; Doniphan's campaign against the Navajos; his unparalleled march upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the operations of General Price at Santa Fe .. (Govt. Print. Off., 1914), by John Taylor Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of California : from the period of the conquest by Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America, containing an account of the discovery of the immense gold mines and placers ... (C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1859), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft history of California : vol. V, 1846-1848. (History Co., 1886), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of California, 1846-49 (Philadelphia., 1899), by Rockwell D. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold rush to California, 1848 to 1850 (1926), by Ruth Louise Rickard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young man, and other papers. (Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young man, and other papers (Ticknor, 1861), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the veterans of the Mexican war. Embodying a historical contrast of the two great political parties of the United States on vital issues, with personal reminiscences and other pertinent episodes. Also: an appendix of three chapters, entitled "The California democratic state club pilloried."--"A new plundercrat organ disguised in the garb of democracy."--"To the greenback-labor voters." ([San Francisco, 1880), by Charles Edward Pickett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny, San Diego, Upper California, January thirtieth, 1847 (Thomas W. Norris, 1950), by Stephen Watts Kearny, Thomas W. Norris, and Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The diary of Johann August Sutter (Grabhorn Press, 1932), by John Augustus Sutter and Douglas S. Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When the French came to California (California Historical Society, 1944), by Gilbert Chinard, Désiré Fricot, Trény,------, and California Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Doniphan's expedition; containing an account of the conquest of New Mexico : General Kearney's overland expedition to California; Doniphan's campaign against the Navajos; his unparalleled march upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the operations of General Price at Santa Fé; with a sketch of the life of Col. Doniphan ... (U. P. James, 1847), by John Taylor Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of California and New Mexico, by the forces of the United States, in the years 1846 & 1847 (Carey & Hart, 1847), by James Madison Cutts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. M. P. Gentry, of Tennessee, on the admission of California. Delivered in the House of Representatives, Monday, June 10, 1850. (Gideon & Co., printers, 1850), by M. P. Gentry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defence of Lieut. Col. J. C. Fremont, before the military court martial, Washington, January, 1848. ([Washington?, 1848), by John Charles Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Clarke, of Rhode Island, on the California claims. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 25, 1848. (Printed by J. T. Towers, 1848), by John Hopkins Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of Benjamin Dore, 1849-1850. (Press of the Courier, 1923), by Benjamin Dore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, on the report of the Committee of Thirteen. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 13, 1850. (Towers, printer, 1850), by Henry Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of the late Rear-Admiral John Drake Sloat of the United States Navy : who took possession of California and raised the American flag at Monterey on July 7th, 1846 (Carruth & Carruth, printers, 1902), by Edwin Allen Sherman and Sloat Monument Association of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• War with Mexico, 1846-1847 (The author, 1907), by John Taylor Hughes, William Elsey Connelley, Charles R. Morehead, and D. C. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentiment in California for American government and admission into the union (McBride Print. Co., 1927), by Grace E. Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of gold; or, Three years in California, by Walter Colton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gentlemen Rovers, by E. Alexander Powell (Gutenberg ebook)

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