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• Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches (1936), by Mrs. H. J. Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

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• Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches (1936), by Mrs. H. J. Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• Early History of Yosemite Valley, California (Washington: GPO, 1919), by Ralph S. Kuykendall (HTML at Yosemite Web)
• One Hundred Years in Yosemite (based on the 1931 and 1947 editions), by Carl Parcher Russell (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California, by Samuel Kneeland
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web
  • page images at MOA
• The Yosemite Guide Book, by Geological Survey of California (page images at MOA)
• The Yosemite Valley: Its History, Characteristic Features, and Theories Regarding Its Origin (1910), by Galen Clark, illust. by George Fiske (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• 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)
• Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity: Their History, Customs and Traditions, by Galen Clark (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Over the Purple Hills: or, Sketches of Travel in California, by Caroline M. Churchill (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• The Yosemite, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • Gutenberg text
• Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851, Which Led to That Event (third edition; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co., c1892), by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
• The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite: The Indians, Their Customs, Legends and Beliefs, and the Story of Yosemite (1922), by Herbert Earl Wilson (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Yosemite Valley: An Intimate Guide (Berkeley, CA: National Parks Pub. House, c1929), by Ansel F. Hall, illust. by Leo Zellensky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Weeks in the Yosemite and Vicinity (1883), by J. M. Buckley (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• 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)
• In the Heart of the Sierras: The Yo Semite Valley (1888), by J. M. Hutchings (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• 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

• Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California (1862), by J. M. Hutchings (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• In the Heart of the Sierras: The Yo Semite Valley (1888), by J. M. Hutchings (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865, by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties (San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Company, 1868), by John S. Hittell (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• Tisáyac of the Yosemite (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., ca. 1890), by M. B. M. Toland (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865, by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• 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)
• California and Californians (5 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1926), 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)

• Past and Present of Alameda County, California (2 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by Joseph E. Baker
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (History and description): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Biographical): multiple formats at archive.org

• Past and Present of Alameda County, California (2 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by Joseph E. Baker
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (History and description): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Biographical): multiple formats at archive.org

• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• In Memoriam: Laurence Soulé Lynch, First Lieutenant "G" Company, 362nd Infantry, 91st Division, United States Army, Born in San Francisco, June 9, 1888, Died in France, October 8, 1918 (reprinted from the Coast Banker, with a poem by Bates; San Francisco: Privately printed by J. H. Nash, 1919), contrib. by John Henry Nash and Katharine Lee Bates
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reminiscences and Incidents of "The Early Days" of San Francisco, by John Henry Brown (PDF with commentary at LOC)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)

• History of Santa Barbara County, California, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Oakland, CA: Thompson and West, 1883), ed. by Jesse D. Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of Santa Clara County, California (San Francisco : Alley, Bowen and Co., 1881), ed. by J. P. Munro-Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Siskiyou County, California: Illustrated With Views of Residences, Business Buildings and Natural Scenery, and Containing Portraits and Biographies of its Leading Citizens and Pioneers (Oakland, CA: D. J. Stewart and Co., 1881), by Harry Laurenz Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • possible reprint: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• History of Stanislaus County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present (Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1921), by George H. Tinkham (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Santa Barbara County, California, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Oakland, CA: Thompson and West, 1883), ed. by Jesse D. Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• J. Ross Browne: A Biography (doctoral dissertation; Washington: Catholic University of America, 1929), by Francis J. Rock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• From Chickens to Prospecting (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1958), by Oscar Daloian (page images at HathiTrust)

• Congressman From India (c1960), by Dalip Singh Saund (illustrated HTML at saund.org)

• The Life and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez, the California Stage Robber (Oskland, CA: Biobooks, 1944), by Eugene T. Sawyer, contrib. by Joseph A. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of a Chef (New York: Comet Press Books, 1958), by Edward F. Mathieu (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)

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