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Scenes of Life in California (San Francisco: J. Howell, c1942), by Friedrich Gerstäcker, trans. by George Cosgrave (PDF with commentary at LOC)
Californische Skizzen (in German; Leipzig: Arnold, 1856), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (Gutenberg text)
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 (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)
Sketches of California (1925 magazine edition), by Frederick A. Gay (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States, by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)

Filed under: California -- Antiquities.

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

Filed under: California -- Bibliography

California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Bibliography of the Spanish Press of California, 1833-1845 (San Francisco: The author, 1919), by Robert Ernest Cowan
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: California -- Biography

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
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)

Filed under: California -- Church history

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)

Filed under: California -- Civilization

A Cultural History of Jews in California (The Jewish Role in American Life v7; West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2009), ed. by Bruce Zuckerman, William Deverell, and Lisa Ansell
- PDF with commentary at Purdue
- PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

Filed under: California -- Climate

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)

Filed under: California -- Commerce

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

Filed under: California -- Constitutional history

Declaration of Rights of American Colonies, 1765 and 1774; Declaration of Indpendence; Articles of Confederation; Constitution of the United States; and Constitution of the State of California; Also, Summary of Amendments Submitted and Vote For and Against Each Amendment, 1883-1911 (Sacramento: Friend Wm. Richardson, 1912), ed. by Frank C. Jordan, contrib. by Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.), United States. Continental Congress, United States, and California (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: California -- Description and travel

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)
Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby: Reminiscences of California and Guatemala From 1849 to 1864 (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1945), by Elisha Oscar Crosby, ed. by Charles A. Barker
- PDF at loc.gov
- page images at HathiTrust
Bound for Sacramento (Claremont, CA: Saunders Stucio Press, 1938), by Carl Meyer (PDF with commentary at LOC)
A Gil Blas in California (Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1933), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
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)
California and the Californians, by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
California and the West, 1881, and Later, by L. Vernon Briggs (PDF with commentary at LOC)
California As I Saw It, by William S. M'Collum (HTML at LOC)
California As It Is, and As It May Be: or, A Guide to the Gold Region (San Francisco: W. Bartlett, 1849), by Felix Paul Wierzbicki (Gutenberg text)
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: or, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1856), by Eliza W. Farnham
- PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- multiple formats at archive.org
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, New and Old (Nashville: Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, 1895), by O. P. Fitzgerald (page images at loc.gov)
California Sketches: New Series (1883), by O. P. Fitzgerald, contrib. by George F. Pierce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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)
The Californiacs (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1921), by Inez Haynes Gillmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
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 (London: Macmillan, 1876), by Walter M. Fisher
- PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- multiple formats at archive.org
Echoes of the Past About California, by John Bidwell (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
Expedition to San Francisco Bay in 1770: Diary of Pedro Fages (Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History v2 #3, in Spanish and English translation; Berkeley: University of California, 1911), by Pedro Fages, ed. by Herbert Eugene Bolton
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
Far-West Sketches (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1890), by Jessie Benton Frémont
- PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- multiple formats at archive.org
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 (new and enlarged edition; San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1902), by Charles Warren Stoddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast (Boston: J. French and Co., 1857), by Mrs. D. B. Bates (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast (eighth edition; Boston: Pub. for the author, 1860), by Mrs. D. B. Bates (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast (eleventh edition; Boston: Pub. for the author, 1861), by Mrs. D. B. Bates (page images at MOA)
A Journey To, On, and From the "Golden Shore" (Delavan: Times Printing Office, 1887), by Sue A. Pike Sanders (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
À la California, by Albert S. Evans (PDF at LOC)
Letters From California, by Harriet Harper (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
Letters from California, by David L. Phillips (HTML at LOC)
Letters from the Pacific Slope (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by Harvey Rice
- PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- multiple formats at archive.org
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 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), by Charles Frederick Holder (multiple formats at archive.org)
"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 (PDF with commentary at LOC)
Mountains and Molehills: or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by Frank Marryat (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Mountains of California, by John Muir
- illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
- 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, a Merchant of Old Westport, Missouri (1844-1858), by James Gillespie Hamilton (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
Notes of Two Trips to California and Return, Taken in 1883 and 1886-7, by Solomon Mead (PDF with commentary 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 (San Francisco: Francis, Valentine and Co., 1882), by Derrick Dodd (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
T. Butler King's Report on California (1850), by T. Butler King
- page images at HathiTrust
- 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 (PDF with commentary at LOC)
A Winter in California, by Mary H. Wills (HTML at LOC)
The Adventures of a Forty-Niner: An Historic Description of California, With Events and Ideas of San Francisco and its People in Those Early Days (1894), by Daniel Knower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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 (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1856), by H. V. Huntley
- both volumes: PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
A California Tramp and Later Footprints, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
Camping Out in California (San Francisco: R. R. Patterson, c1889), by Mrs. J. B. Rideout
- PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- multiple formats at archive.org
Drei Jahre in Amerika, 1859-1862 (3 volumes in 2, in German; Hannover: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1862), by I. J. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes), by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA)
Gerstäcker's Travels, by Friedrich Gerstäcker (HTML at LOC)
Journal of a Voyage Between China and the North-Western Coast of America Made in 1804 (extract from the American Register, 1808), by William Shaler (page images at HathiTrust)
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)
Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California (New York: Burr printing house, 1887), by J. H. Bates
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
Ramblings in California, by Pringle Shaw (HTML at LOC)
The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate, by Susie C. Clark (PDF and page images with commentary 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 (San Francisco: T. C. Russell, 1922), by Dame Shirley, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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 (London: Dowsett and Co., n.d.), by C. F. Dowsett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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: Pub. for the author by Carlton and Porter, 1858), by William Taylor
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at MOA
- eleventh thousand; page images at HathiTrust
Diary of a Physician in California, by James L. 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 (Baltimore: Pub. for the author, 1855), by Hinton Rowan Helper
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- page images at MOA
McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California (Columbus: Scott and Bascom, 1850), by Samuel McNeil (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
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 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1852), by Daniel Bates Woods (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California (New York: J. Egbert, 1860), by L. M. Schaeffer
- PDF with commetnary at loc.gov
- multiple formats at archive.org
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)
California Letters of Lucius Fairchild (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1931), by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
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
- PDF with commentary at loc.gov
- multiple formats with commentary at Google
The Trek of the Seven Sisters, by Monica Corrigan (illustrated HTML and PDF at Arizona)

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