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

• 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
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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