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• In the Heart of the Sierras: The Yo Semite Valley (1888), by J. M. Hutchings (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

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

• A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California (1870; published 1875), by Joseph LeConte (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• Ramblings Through the High Sierra, by Joseph LeConte (HTML at LOC)
• The Mountains of California, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • SGML and text at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • page images at loc.gov

• Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• The Yosemite Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California, by J. D. Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• 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)

• The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: A. L. Chatterton and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1923), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1923), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1923), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Studies in the Sierra (1950 edition), by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)

• Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA

• Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA

• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • page images at loc.gov
• The Yosemite Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California, by J. D. Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• 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)

• Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• With Stevenson to California, 1846 (California Relations #36; Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1954), by James Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California (reprint of Hughes's book on the expedition, with additional material; Topeka, KS: W. E. Connelley, 1907), by John Taylor Hughes, ed. by William Elsey Connelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early Voyages to California, by Alfred Peabody and J. H. Eagleston (HTML at LOC)
• My Seventy Years in California, 1857-1927, by J. A. Graves (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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby: Reminiscences of California and Guatemala From 1849 to 1864, by Elisha Oscar Crosby (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)

• Starr King in California, by William Day Simonds (Gutenberg text)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)

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