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Books about California:

• 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)

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

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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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