Frontier and pioneer life -- California
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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- Ranch life -- California
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Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter Correnah Wilson Wright (Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1937), by Luzena Stanley Wilson, ed. by Correnah Wilson Wright, contrib. by Francis P. Farquhar, illust. by Kathryn Uhl- Appreciation of Loved Ones Who Made Life Rich for Many, by Lilian A. Cross (HTML at LOC)
- The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
- California, 1849-1913: or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in That State, by L. H. Woolley (Gutenberg text)
- California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
- From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)
- Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
- History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini (Gutenberg text)
- The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
- A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (HTML at LOC)
- A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
- Recollections of a California Pioneer (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1917), by Carlisle S. Abbott
- Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)
- Touching Incidents in the Life and Labors of a Pioneer on the Pacific Coast Since 1853, by Joseph Wilkinson Hines (HTML at LOC)
- A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
- A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, by Franklin Agustus Buck (HTML at LOC)
- Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
- California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
- The Gold Seekers of '49: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trail and Adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854 (Manchester, NH: Standard Book Co., 1917), by Kimball Webster, contrib. by George Waldo Browne, illust. by Frank Holland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
- The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
- The Land of Little Rain (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903), by Mary Austin
- Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
- A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
- Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet (HTML at LOC)
- Recollections of Pioneer Work in California, by James Woods (HTML at LOC)
- Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings (New York: Harper and Bros., 1852), by Daniel Bates Woods (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
- The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
- Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California, by Frank Aleamon Leach (PDF at loc.gov)
- Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849 (Washington: Printed by J. T. Towers, 1850), by California Constitutional Convention (1849), ed. by J. Ross Browne
- Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
- Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
- 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)
- The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records From the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and From the Diaries, Old Papers and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California (Los Angeles, 1919), by Delilah L. Beasley
- Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
- 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
- The Argonauts of North Liberty, by Bret Harte (Gutenberg text)
- Down the Mother Lode: Pioneer Tales of California, by Vivia Hemphill (Gutenberg text)
- A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
- Frontier Boys on the Coast: or, In the Pirate's Power (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt
- Adobe Days, by Sarah Bixby Smith (HTML at LOC)
- Brand Book (Los Angeles Corral of Westerners) (partial serial archives)
- Early Days at the Mission San Juan Bautista, by Isaac L. Mylar (HTML at LOC)
- History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: A Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush (University of California Publications in History v12; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1921), by Mary Floyd Williams
- Early Days in California: Scenes and Events of the '50s As I Remember Them, by Lee Whipple-Haslam (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)
- Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Frontier and pioneer life- The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Louisa Barnes Pratt, ed. by S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
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