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The Autobiography of Charles Peters, (b1825)  in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in...the days   LC

Bench and Bar in California: History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences.    by Oscar Tully Shuck.  1889  Goo 

Californica     by William Hathorn Mills,  1848-1923    San Bernardino, Calif : Barnum & Flagg Company, 1919    OpL   

California: An Intimate History    by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton  1914   Goo

California and New Mexico.   United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor) Washington, 1850    MoA  

California '46 to '88    by Jacob Wright Harlan - Overland journeys to the Pacific – 1883  Goo

California, from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in ...   by Josiah Royce – 1886  Goo

California, In-doors and Out; Or, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in ...    by Eliza Wood Farnham - Donner Party – 1856  Goo

California Inter Pocula    by Hubert Howe Bancroft - California Gold discoveries  1888  Goo

California Men and Events: Time 1769-1890   by George Henry Tinkham 1915   Goo

California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines,    by Leonard Kip   LC 

The California State Land Settlement Act: what has been done & plans for the future [planned rural development  1919  Har

California Under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847: A Contribution Toward the ...    by Irving Berdine Richman  1911   Goo

Chimes of Mission Bells: An Historical Sketch of California and Her Missions  (Account of SF Chinatown)    by Charles Warren Stoddard.   1911    Cal 

The city of the saints: and across the Rocky mountains to California.   by Richard Francis Burton, Sir, 1821-90.   New York: Harper & brothers 1862.  MoA

Colusa County: Its History Traced from a State of Nature Through the Early...    by Justus H. Rogers - Colusa County (Calif.)  1891   Goo

The Condition of Affairs in Indian Territory and California,   by Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter    LC

The conquest of California and New Mexico, by the forces of the United States, in the years 1846 & 1847    by James Madison  Cutts,  Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1847   OpL    

Descriptive List of the Libraries of California: containing the names of all persons who are engaged in library work in the state...    by J. L. (James Louis) Gillis. 1904  Goo

Diary of Patrick Breen, one of the Donner Party, 1846-1847.     Frederick J. Teggart   1910  Ca  

Directory of the Grape Growers and Wine Makers of California.    by California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners.     Goo     1888     1891

Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851   LC

Early days at the mission San Juan Bautista  LC

Early days in California   LC

The early days of California   by Thomas Jefferson, Farnham,  1804-1848.   Philadelphia,: J. E. Potter, 1859.   MoA 

The Early Days and Men of California    by William F. Swasey 1891  Goo

Early recollections of the mines, and a description of the great Tulare valley.    LC

Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to ...   by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Butler King - California  –   Goo   1850  vol 1    1870   

Emigration by Colony for the Middle Classes "special advantages of Florida"; Calif. land settlement   by James  Selwin Tait,  Ednbg, 1885   Har

The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon & California  [Calif. & Oregon trail; promotional]   by Lansford Warren Hastings, 1819-ca 1870    1846   LC BYU    UVa 

The Establishment of State Government in California 1846-1850   by Cardinal Goodwin 1916  Goo

The Forty-niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado - Page 25   by Stewart Edward White - California National Historic Trail – 1918  Goo

The golden state: a history of the region west of the Rocky Mountains; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the earliest period to the present time ... with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons.   By Rolander Guy McClellan: Philadelphia, Chicago,  Union pub co; W. Flint & company; 1872   MoA 

Guide to the County Archives of California.   by John Francis Davis. 1919  Goo

Handbook and Directory of Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Mateo Counties:...   by Luther L. Paulson, 1875  Goo  

History and Business Directory of Humboldt County [Calif.]: Descriptive of the Natural Resources...    by Lillie E. Hamm, 1890  Goo

History of Amador County, California, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers   by Jesse D Mason,  Thompson & West, publisher   Oakland, Cal., Thompson & West, 1881   OpL   

History of California.    by Theodore Henry Hittell.  N.J. Stone & co.   1897    Goo

History of California: From Its Discovery to the Present Time...   by Elisha Smith Capron - Gold mines and mining – 1854  Goo

A History of California: The American Period   by Robert Glass Cleland 1922  Goo

A History of California: The Spanish Period.   by Charles Edward Chapman. 1921   Goo

History of California: The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft.   by Hubert Howe Bancroft.  1888   Goo

History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892.  by Winfield J. Davis. 1893   Goo

The History of San José and Surroundings: With Biographical Sketches of ...    by Frederic Hall  1871  Goo

History of San Mateo County, California: Including Its Geography, Topography ...    1883   Goo

History of Santa Clara County, California     by J. P. Munro-Fraser  1881  Goo

History of the Donner Party - A Tragedy of the Sierra.    by  C. F. McGlashan.   1922  Gut

A History of the New California: Its Resources and People   by Leigh Hadley Irvine  1905  Goo

Hupa Texts ["Northern California, Humboldt County, on the Trinity River"] (Amer Arch. & Ethnology)   by Pliny Earle Goddard,  NY 1904   ST

The Indians of Los Angeles County:  LC

The Indians of southern California in 1852   LC

Irrigation & religion; religious & social conditions in & California counties [illus., bibliography;    by Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner,   NY, 1922  Cor

The Lake of the Sky, Lake Tahoe, in the High Sierras of California and ...  by George Wharton James  1915  Goo

Land titles in California. Report on the subject of land titles in California, made in pursuance of instructions from the secretary of state and the secretary of the interior,   by William Carey Jones,  1814-1867.   Washington,: Gideon & co., printers, 1850.  MoA 

The last of the Mill Creeks, and early life in northern California,   LC

A letter from a gold miner, Placerville, California, October, 1850,   LC

The Life of Bret Harte: With Some Account of the California Pioneers.   by Henry Childs Merwin.  Houghton Miffin Co.  1911   Goo

Legislative journals (1849-1997; use "Journals" menu to select year and click on table of contents items in PDF),   by California. Legislature (links PDF files at assembly.ca.gov; JavaScript and link-following PDF viewer may be required) link

Memories; my seventy-two years in the romantic county of Yuba, California,   by W.T. Ellis (William Turner)b. 1866; intro by Richard Belcher.   Eugene, University of Oregon, [San Francisco], Printed by J. H. Nash, 1939  LC

Men and memories of San Francisco, in the "spring of '50"    by T.A. Barry (Theodore Augustus), 1825-1881 and B.A. Patten. San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1873.  LC

Misrepresentations of early California history corrected by Society of California Pioneers Sterett Printing Company  San Francisco [Sterett Printing Co.], 1894   OpL    

The natural wealth of California: ... history, geography… commerce; immigration,a detailed description of each county., Cronise, Titus Fey.  MoA  

Northern California, Oregon, & the Sandwich Islands    by Charles Nordhoff,  1830-1901  MoA  

Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California."    By Samuel Curtis Upham, 1819-1885.  Philadelphia, The author, 1878.  LC 

An Open Letter; A Protest and a Petition from a Citizen of California to the United States Congress.   by Joseph Hampton Moore.  187?    Gut 

The ordinances of the city of Palo Alto: A municipal corporation of the State of California…     Stnfrd  1911  UCa

Oregon and California in 1848   by Jessy Quinn Thornton 1864   Goo

Past and Present of Alameda County, California   by Joseph Eugene Baker  1914   Goo

The Patrons of husbandry on the Pacific coast.: Being a complete history of the origin… agriculture... a general and special grange directory, and full list of charter members of the subordinate granges of California.    by  Ezra S. Carr, (Ezra Slocum), 1819-1894.    San Francisco,: A. L. Bancroft and company, 1875.  MoA 

A picture of pioneer times in California, illustrated with anecdotes and stories taken from real life.  by William Grey [pseud. for  William Francis White, 1829-1891?  Author's ed. San Francisco, Printed by W.M. Hinton & co., 1881   LC  text

Ranch life in California [Burns Valley, near Lower Lake, Modoc County]  Extracted from the home correspondence of Evelyn M.H.    London, W.H. Allen & co., 1886.  LC  View text

Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California,   by Frank Aleamon Leach, 1846-   San Francisco, S. Levinson, 1917 LC

Recollections of California, 1846-1861,   by William T. Sherman  LC

Recollections of Pioneer Work in California,    by James Woods    LC

Reminiscences of a ranger, or, Early times in Southern California    by Major Horace Bell 1830-1918. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, 1881. LC

Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of the State of California   by Henry Jacob Labatt 1858   Goo

Report of the debates in the Convention of California, on the formation of the state constitution, in September and October, 1849    by John Ross Browne (1821-1875) the official reporter.   Washington, Printed by J. T. Towers, 1850.   LC    MoA 

Report of the Div. of Land Settlement, Dept of Public Works of California to accompany the first biennial report    1922   Har

Report of the debates in the Convention of California, on the formation of the state constitution, in Sept and Oct, 1849   LC

San Juan Capistrano Mission   by Zephyrin Engelhardt 1922   Goo

San Diego Yesterdays: Being Sketches of Incidents in the Indian, Spanish, Mexican and American History of the City of San Diego...    by Daughters of the American Revolution, Tex.) San Diego Chapter (San Diego - San Diego (Calif.) – 1921

Santa Barbara and around there.    by Edwards Roberts. Illus by H.C. Ford.  Boston, Roberts brothers, 1886   LC

Seeking the Golden Fleece: A Record of Pioneer Life in California: to which ...     by Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman - Voyages to the Pacific coast  1877  Goo

Seventy-five years in California; a history of events and life in California: personal, political and military; under the Mexican regime; during the quasi-military government of the territory…after the admission of the state to the union:…revised edition of "Sixty years in California",     by William Heath Davis, 1822-1909  San Francisco, J. Howell, 1929.  LC  text   image

Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark, 1834-1916   ed Maurice H. Newmark; Marco R. Newmark ...   2d ed., rev. and augm.  New York, The Knickerbocker press, 1926.   LC

Society of California Pioneers:     Fourteenth anniversary 1864       Twentieth anniversary  1870  OpL

Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles ...   by John Steven McGroarty, 1862-1944.  1914   Goo

A Southern California Paradise (in the Suburbs of Los Angeles)...   by R. W. C. Farnsworth - San Gabriel River Valley  1883   Goo

The Spanish Pioneers And The California Missions    by Charles F. Lummis   A. C. McClurg & Co., 1936  OpL

Spirit of Patriotism as evidenced by the Revolutionary & Ancestral Records of the Society, Sons of the Revolution.   Sons of the Rev. Calif. Soc.   1915   UCLA 

The story of california   1920   Goo

The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature   by Ella Sterling Mighels  1893  Goo

Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909.   by Hichborn.  1909  Gut

T. Butler King's report on California.: Message from the President … heretofore appointed bearer of despatches and special agent to California ...   by T. Butler King,  (Thomas Butler), 1800-1864.  Washington: Govt. print. off., 1850   MoA 

Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information...    1906   cdl

The Transition Period of California: From a Province of Mexico in 1846 to a ...   by Samuel Hopkins Willey 1901   Goo

The United States Consulate in California   by Rayner Wickersham Kelsey 1910  Goo

The Vigilance Committee of 1856. By a Pioneer California Journalist.   by James O'Meara.   1887   Ca

Who's who in Music in California    by Willey Francis Gates 1920   Goo

Who's who on the Pacific Coast: A Biographical Compilation of Notable Living ...   by Franklin Harper - California – 1913  Goo