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• The History of California's Japanese Problem and the Part Played by the Native Sons of the Golden West in its Solution (1942), by Peter Thomas Conmy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Japanese in California (1914), by American Association for International Conciliation (page images here at Penn)

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• The Australian Crisis (London: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1909), by C. H. Kirmess
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Japan and Manchoukuo (Foreign Policy Reports v8 #8; 1932), by T. A. Bisson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What is Japan Fighting For? The Truth About the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937), by Japanese Association of America and Japanese Association of San Francisco (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Korea: Forgotten Nation (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1944), by Robert T. Oliver, contrib. by Syngman Rhee (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Masayo Duus, ed. by Peter Duus, trans. by Beth Cary (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Korea: Forgotten Nation (Washington: Public Affairs Press, c1944), by Robert T. Oliver, contrib. by Syngman Rhee (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Corée Contemporaine (in French; Paris: J. Dumoulin, 1921), contrib. by H. J. Mulett-Merrick, Frank Herron Smith, Masatarō Sawayanagi, and M. A. Maybon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• War Relocation Centers: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 444, a Bill Providing for the Transfer of Certain Functions of the War Relocation Authority to the War Department (4 parts; Washington: GPO, 1943), by United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myths and Facts About the Japanese Americans: Answering Common Misconceptions Regarding Americans of Japanese Ancestry (Washington: Dept. of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, 1945), by United States War Relocation Authority
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II (University of California Publications in Culture and Society v6; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Leonard Broom and John I. Kitsuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Displaced Japanese-Americans, by American Council on Public Affairs (PDF page images at MSU)

• The Many Roads to Japan: A Search for Identity, by Robert W. Norris (illustrated HTML with commentary at gol.com)

• Shadowings (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Japanese Colour Prints (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Laurence Binyon and J. J. O'Brien Sexton (page images at CMU)

• The Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural, Transportation, and Other Interests of California: Being a Report on that State for 1890 Made to S. G. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics (Washington: GPO, 1891), by Thomas J. Vivian and United States Department of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado: or, California As Seen By a Pioneer, 1850-1900 (Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt and Co., 1900), by David Augustus Shaw
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Native Son, by Inez Haynes Gillmore (Gutenberg text)
• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
• Scenes of Life in California, by Friedrich Gerstäcker, trans. by George Cosgrave (HTML at LOC)
• Sketches of California (1925 magazine edition), by Frederick A. Gay (HTML at LOC)
• Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States, by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)

• University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964) (partial serial archives)

• California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)
• Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study (San Francisco: History Co., 1891-1892), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (New York: F. J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
• Ginny Good (electronic edition; text and audio by the author), by Gerard Jones (HTML with commentary at everyonewhosanyone.com)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)

• California Mennonites (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015), by Brian Froese (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Gospel Pioneering: Reminiscences of Early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920, by William C. Pond (HTML at LOC)

• Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), ed. by Joseph B. Knox and Ann Foley Scheuring (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)

• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)

• Vancouver in California, 1792-1794: The Original Account of George Vancouver (2 text volumes and 1 map volume in 1; Los Angeles: G. Dawson, 1953-1954), by George Vancouver, ed. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Gil Blas in California (New York: Hastings House, c1948), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, illust. by R. A. Cates (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• A Gil Blas in California (Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1933), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (illustrated 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 Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 (San Francisco: The Private press of Thomas C. Russell, 1926), by Nikolaĭ Petrovich Rezanov, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Seeing California (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by William G. Paden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the Gates, by Benjamin F. Taylor (HTML at LOC)
• Bits of Travel at Home (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1878), by Helen Hunt Jackson (illustrated HTML at Yosemite Web)
• Bound for Sacramento, by Carl Meyer (HTML at LOC)
• California and the Californians, by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• California and the West, 1881, and Later, by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (HTML at LOC)
• California As I Saw It, by William S. M'Collum (HTML at LOC)
• California As It Is and As It May Be, by Felix Paul Wierzbicki (HTML at LOC)
• California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon (1913), by J. Smeaton Chase (illustrated HTML at ventanawild.org)
• California Desert Trails (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images in Germany)
• California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence (New York: Harper and Bros., 1873), by Charles Nordhoff
  • PDF at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• California, In-Doors and Out, by Eliza W. Farnham (HTML at LOC)
• California Notes, by Charles B. Turrill (HTML at LOC)
• California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• California Revisited, 1858-1897, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
• California Sketches, by Thomas S. Chard (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• California Sketches (old and new volumes), by O. P. Fitzgerald (HTML at LOC)
• California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines, by Leonard Kip (HTML at LOC)
• The Californiacs, by Inez Haynes Gillmore (Gutenberg text)
• The Californiacs (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916), by Inez Haynes Gillmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse, by Benjamin Parke Avery (PDF at loc.gov)
• The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher (HTML at LOC)
• Echoes of the Past About California, by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
• The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Far-West Sketches, by Jessie Benton Frémont (HTML at LOC)
• Glances at California, 1847-1853, by Wm. R. Hutton (HTML at LOC)
• Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
• Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• Granite Crags (1884 edition), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Granite Crags of California (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1886), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• In the Footprints of the Padres, by Charles Warren Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
• Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast, by Mrs. D. B. Bates
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• A Journey To, On, and From the "Golden Shore", by Sue A. Pike Sanders (HTML at LOC)
• À la California, by Albert S. Evans (PDF at LOC)
• Letters From California, by Harriet Harper (HTML at LOC)
• Letters from California, by David L. Phillips (HTML at LOC)
• Letters from the Pacific Slope, by Harvey Rice (HTML at LOC)
• Letters of Travel in California, in the Winter and Spring of 1896, by Loraine Immen (HTML at LOC)
• Life in the Open: Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse, and Hound in Southern California, by Charles Frederick Holder (HTML at LOC)
• "Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers: Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873 (1874), by Caroline M. Churchill
  • PDF and XML and loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Lure of the Past, the Present and Future, by George W. Bryan (HTML at LOC)
• Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby: Reminiscences of California and Guatemala From 1849 to 1864, by Elisha Oscar Crosby (HTML at LOC)
• Mountains and Molehills, by Frank Marryat (HTML at LOC)
• The Mountains of California, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • SGML and text at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (main text by Nordhoff, with an appendix by Remy translated by Brigham; New York: Harper and Bros., 1875), by Charles Nordhoff, trans. by William Tufts Brigham, contrib. by Jules Remy
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Notebooks of James Gillespie Hamilton, by James Gillespie Hamilton (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of Two Trips to California and Return, Taken in 1883 and 1886-7, by Solomon Mead (HTML at LOC)
• Old Californian Days, by James W. Steele (HTML at LOC)
• Over the Purple Hills: or, Sketches of Travel in California, by Caroline M. Churchill (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (New York: F. J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
• Roughing It De Luxe (New York: G. H. Doran CO., c1914), by Irvin S. Cobb, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California (1862), by J. M. Hutchings (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• The Silverado Squatters (New york: J. W. Lovell Co., 1888), by Robert Louis Stevenson (HTML at LOC)
• The Silverado Squatters (London: Chatto and Windus, 1906), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by J. D. Strong (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Six Months in California, by J. G. Player-Frowd (HTML at LOC)
• Summer Saunterings, by Derrick Dodd (HTML at LOC)
• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
• T. Butler King's Report on California, by T. Butler King (page images at MOA)
• Two Years in California (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1876), by Mary Cone
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at loc.gov
• Up and Down California in 1860-1864, by William Henry Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)
• A Winter in California, by Mary H. Wills (HTML at LOC)
• The Adventures of a Forty-Niner, by Daniel Knower (HTML at LOC)
• Bits of Travel; Bits of Travel at Home (combined edition of 1874 and 1890 texts, with added illustrations), by Helen Hunt Jackson, ed. by Louise Hope (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1877), by Mrs. Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants, by H. V. Huntley (HTML at LOC)
• A California Tramp and Later Footprints, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
• Camping Out in California, by Mrs. J. B. Rideout (HTML at LOC)
• Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes), by Bayard Taylor
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• Gerstäcker's Travels, by Friedrich Gerstäcker (HTML at LOC)
• Life at Puget Sound, With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California (1884), by Caroline C. Leighton (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• Memories, Some of Many (Berkeley: H. S. Howard, 1920), by Annie V. Finn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Narrative of a Japanese (two volumes), by Joseph Heco, ed. by James Murdoch (HTML at LOC)
• Ramblings in California, by Pringle Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate, by Susie C. Clark (HTML at LOC)
• Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California (Boston: American Tract Society, c1865), by Mary E. Anderson (page images at Google)
• The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52, by Dame Shirley, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (HTML at LOC)
• Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way, by Theodore T. Johnson (HTML at LOC)
• A Start in Life. A Journey Across America. Fruit Farming in California., by Charles Finch Dowsett (HTML at LOC)
• Three Years in California, by Walter Colton
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
  • page images at MOA
• A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country, by T. D. Beasley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Travels With Jottings, From Midland to the Pacific (1880), by Edward D. Holton (PDF at loc.gov)
• The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California, by Samuel Kneeland
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web
  • page images at MOA
• The California Guide Book: Comprising Colonel Fremont's Geographical Account of Upper California; Major Emory's Overland Journey From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas Del Norte and Gila Rivers; and Captain Fremont's Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and to Oregon and North California; Accompanied with a Map of Various Routes, and a Map of the Gold Regions (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1849), by John Charles Frémont and William H. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Life Illustrated (New York: The author, 1858), by William Taylor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at MOA
• Diary of a Physician in California, by James Lawrence Tyson (HTML at LOC)
• A Frenchman in the Gold Rush, by Ernest de Massey, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction, by Hinton Rowan Helper
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
• Narrative of a Journey Round the World, During the Years 1841 and 1842 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1847), by George Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Records of a California Family, by Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn, ed. by Anna Lee Marston (HTML at LOC)
• Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel Bates Woods (HTML at LOC)
• Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by L. M. Schaeffer (HTML at LOC)
• What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and At the Hawaiian Islands (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865), by H. Willis Baxley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Yurok Geography (offprint from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology; Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920), by T. T. Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
• Deck and Port: or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California; with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (New York: A. S. Barnes; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at MOA)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• From East Prussia to the Golden Gate, by Frank Lecouvreur (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)
• Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet (HTML at LOC)
• The Trek of the Seven Sisters, by Monica Corrigan (illustrated HTML and PDF at Arizona)

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