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• California Gold (1933 magazine reprint), by James Stephens Brown (HTML at LOC)
• California Copy (Washington: Washington College Press, c1928), by Geo. F. Weeks
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88, by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
• Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)

• Early Recollections of the Mines, and A Description of the Great Tulare Valley, by James H. Carson (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines, by Leonard Kip (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)
• A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1885), by Aug. J. Bowie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by L. M. Schaeffer (HTML at LOC)
• Synopsis of a Report on Mining in California and Nevada, U.S.A. (1879), by G. Thureau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Kultaa ja Kuntoa (Smoke Bellew in Finnish; Helskini: Otava, 1921), by Jack London, trans. by J. Saastamoinen (Gutenberg text)
• Nigger Bellew (Smoke Bellew in Swedish; Stockholm: A. B. Bohlin and Co., 1919), by Jack London, trans. by Ernst Lundquist
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Smoke Bellew (UK edition), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Smoke Bellew (American edition), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Digging for Gold: or, Adventures in California, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Joe's Luck: or, Always Wide Awake, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
• Philosopher Jack: A Tale of the Southern Seas, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (c1885), by Bret Harte, illust. by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (London: Chatto and Windus, n.d.), by Bret Harte, illust. by Kate Greenaway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen of the Pirate Isle (Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1887), by Bret Harte, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Alabama) (partial serial archives)

• Handbook for the Alaskan Prospector (third printing, 1980), by Ernest N. Wolff, ed. by Richard H. Byrns (PDF with commentary at alaska.edu)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally Through the Northern Provinces, and the Gold and Diamond Districts, During the Years 1836-1841 (second edition; London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849), by George Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Metal Mining and the Environment (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, c1999), by Travis Hudson, Frederick D. Fox, and Geoffrey S. Plumlee (PDF at agiweb.org)

• The Hidden Mine (originally published 1896), by Joseph A. Altsheler (HTML at woodwardworks.com)
• Murder in Space (Galaxy novel #23; New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1954), by David V. Reed, illust. by Ed Emshwiller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Lost Mine of the Mono: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles Herman Bruno Klette (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Georgia) (partial serial archives)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Report on the Mines Known in the Eastern Division of Hayti, and the Facilities of Working Them (London: Printed for Ridgway, Booth, and Wilson, 1825), by William Walton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho, and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America (New York: Harper and Bros., 1857), by William V. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, Made During the Year 1869, by Indiana Geological Survey (illustrated HTML at Indiana)

• The University Geological Survey of Kansas (9 volumes; 1896-1908), by Kansas Geological Survey, contrib. by Erasmus Haworth (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Recollections, 1848-1931 (Santa Barbara, CA: Schauer Printing Studio, 1933), by Alexander Baring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexico in 1827 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by H. G. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Bulletin (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology) (partial serial archives)
• Geology and Mining Series (University of Nevada) (partial serial archives)
• Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode Area, Wherein Are Described Points of Interest in the History of Mining the Lode (Sausalito, CA: Pages of History, c1959), by Pages of History (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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