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• Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)

• Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (full serial archives)

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Martin R. Ansell (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Glimpses of California and the Missions, by Helen Hunt Jackson (HTML at LOC)
• Semi-Tropical California, by Benjamin Cummings Truman (PDF at loc.gov)
• Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, by Harris Newmark (HTML at LOC)

• Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in California, by Charles Augustus Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
• "Both Sides Told," or, Southern California As It Is, by Mary C. Vail (HTML at LOC)
• Happy Days in Southern California, by Frederick Hastings Rindge (HTML at LOC)
• Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner (HTML at LOC)
• To and Fro in Southern California, by Emma H. Adams (HTML at LOC)
• A Truthful Woman in Southern California, by Kate Sanborn (HTML at LOC)
• Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)
• Santa Barbara and Around There, by Edwards Roberts (HTML at LOC)
• A Winter in California, by Mary H. Wills (HTML at LOC)

• Oil! (c1927), by Upton Sinclair (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson (Gutenberg text)
• Ramona (text from 1884 Roberts Bros. edition; illustrations and introduction from 1913 Pasadena edition), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by A. C. Vroman, illust. by Henry Sandham (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Beaches and Parks in Southern California (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaches and Parks in Southern California (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaches and Parks in Southern California (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Tenderfoot in Southern California, by Mina Deane Halsey (HTML at LOC)

• A-Birding on a Bronco (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Florence Merriam Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)

• Flora of Southern California (Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923), by Anstruther Davidson and George L. Moxley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• My Playhouse Was a Concord Coach: An Anthology of Newspaper Clippings and Documents Relating to Those Who Made California History During the Years 1822-1888 (Oakland, CA: Printed at the Howell-North Press, c1942), ed. by Mae Hélène Bacon Boggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and Californians (4 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1932), ed. by Rockwell D. Hunt, contrib. by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses, Reminiscences, Etc. of General John Bidwell, by John Bidwell, ed. by Charles C. Royce (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88, by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
• California the Golden (New York et al.: Silver, Burdett and Co., c1911), by Rockwell D. Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Adventures in California of Don Agustín Janssens, 1834-1856, by Agustín Janssens, trans. by Francis Price (HTML at LOC)
• The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco; The Log of the San Carlos and Original Documents Translated and Annotated, by Zoeth S. Eldredge and E. J. Molera (Gutenberg text)
• A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty Years in California, by Samuel H. Willey (HTML at LOC)
• The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Edition of 1845, with Historical Note and Bibliography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932), by Lansford Warren Hastings, ed. by Charles Henry Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Annals of San Francisco (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855), by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet (illustrated HTML at sfgenealogy.com)
• California, Romantic and Resourceful: A Plea for the Collection, Preservation, and Diffusion of Information Relating to Pacific Coast History, by John Francis Davis (Gutenberg text)
• The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini (Gutenberg text)
• Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), by Peter H. Burnett (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Seventy-Five Years in California, by William Heath Davis, ed. by Douglas S. Watson (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)

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