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• California -- Fiction

• The Caballero (New York: New American Library, 1948), by Johnston McCulley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Penance of Magdalena, and Other Tales of the California Missions, by J. Smeaton Chase (Gutenberg text)

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

• Mission Memories (Los Angeles: Neuner Corporation, c1929), by John Steven McGroarty, illust. by Frederick V. Carpenter (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Mission Record of the California Indians (1908), ed. by A. L. Kroeber (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Writings of Junípero Serra (3 public domain volumes (4th is still under copyright), covering up to 1780; Washington: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955-1956), by Junípero Serra, ed. by Antonine Tibesar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francisco Palou's Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junípero Serra, Founder of the Franciscan Missions of California (Pasadena, CA: G. W. James, 1913), by Francisco Palóu, ed. by George Wharton James, trans. by C. Scott Williams
  • Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las Misiones que Fundó en la California Septentrional, y Nuevos Establecimientos de Monterey (in Spanish; México: D. Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1787), by Francisco Palóu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mission Memories (Los Angeles: Neuner Corporation, c1929), by John Steven McGroarty, illust. by Frederick V. Carpenter (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Mission Record of the California Indians (1908), ed. by A. L. Kroeber (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• San Antonio de Padua: The Mission in the Sierras (Missions and Missionaries of California, new series, local history; Santa Barbara, CA: Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1915), by Selma Lagerlöf, trans. by Pauline Bancroft Flach (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Making of a Saint (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)

• The Ape, the Idiot and Other People (fourth edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910), by W. C. Morrow (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Blix, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Choy Susan, and Other Stories (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by William Henry Bishop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Daughter of the Vine (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Days of '49 (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Gordon Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Everlasting Whisper: A Tale of the California Wilderness, by Jackson Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• Fulfillment: A California Novel (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1916), by Emma Wolf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hear Him Roar (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Andrew Wingfield
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Moran of the Lady Letty, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California, by Geraldine Bonner (Gutenberg text)
• The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• Direct Action: An Historical Novel (San Francisco: GroundWork, c2003), by Luke Hauser, contrib. by Starhawk (PDF with commentary at directaction.org)
• To a God Unknown (c1933), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Pastures of Heaven (c1932), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Crimson Trail of Joaquin Murieta (Los Angeles: Wetzel Pub. Co., c1928), by Ernest Klette (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1909), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by C. D. Williams
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Pride of Palomar (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Peter B. Kyne, illust. by Harry Russell Ballinger and Dean Cornwell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Punainen Rutto (The Scarlet Plague in Finnish; Helsinki: Minerva, 1922), by Jack London, trans. by Ilmari Lehto (Gutenberg text)
• Röda Pesten (The Scarlet Plague in Swedish; Stockholm: Bohlin and Co., 1918), by Jack London, trans. by M. Drangel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Scarlet Plague (as published in London Magazine, 1912), by Jack London (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Scarlet Plague (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Jack London, illust. by Gordon Grant
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Scarlet Plague (London: Mills and Boon, ca. 1916), by Jack London
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wayward Bus (c1947), by John Steinbeck (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Grapes of Wrath (c1939), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• In Dubious Battle (c1936), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Curse of Capistrano (based on the original magazine version, 1919; later editions published as "The Mark of Zorro"), by Johnston McCulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (third edition; San Francisco: F. MacCrellish, 1874), by John Rollin Ridge (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• The Mark of Zorro (illustrated with photographs from the Douglas Fairbanks film; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Johnston McCulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mark of Zorro (probably from a reprint copy; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• The Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)

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