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This article appears in Issue 35 of Alta Journal.
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  1. The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California, by Gertrude Atherton, 1902.
  2. The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Austin, 1903.
  3. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, by Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1882–90.
  4. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, by F.W. Beechey, 1831.
  5. Reminiscences of a Ranger, by Horace Bell, 1881.
  6. Indian Wars of the Northwest: A California Sketch, by A.J. Bledsoe, 1885.
  7. Anza’s California Expeditions, by Herbert Eugene Bolton, 1930.
  8. Three Years in California, by J.D. Borthwick, 1857.
  9. Up and Down California in 1860–1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, by William Henry Brewer, 1930.
  10. Reminiscences and Incidents of ‘The Early Days’ of San Francisco (1845–1850), by John H. Brown, 1886.
  11. Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, by J. Ross Browne, 1850.
  12. What I Saw in California, by Edwin Bryant, 1849.
  13. Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer, by Peter H. Burnett, 1880.
  14. California and New Mexico: Message from the President of the United States, 1850.
  15. Exposición Dirigida a la Cámara de Diputados del Congreso, by Carlos Antonio Carrillo, 1831.
  16. Early Recollections of the Mines, and a Description of the Great Tulare Valley, by J.H. Carson, 1852.
  17. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), 1867.
  18. Roughing It, by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), 1872.
  19. James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792–1881: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant As Told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries, by James Clyman, 1928.
  20. Three Years in California, by Walter Colton, 1850.
  21. Songs from the Golden Gate, by Ina Coolbrith, 1895.
  22. Diario Histórico de los Viages de Mar, by Miguel Costansó, 1770.
  23. A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, 1510–1906, by Robert Ernest Cowan, 1914.
  24. The Story of the Files: A Review of Californian Writers and Literature, by Ella Sterling Cummins, 1893. 
  25. The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822–1829, edited by Harrison Clifford Dale, 1918.
  26. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, by Richard Henry Dana Jr., 1840.
  27. Sixty Years in California, by William Heath Davis, 1889.
  28. History of Political Conventions in California, 1849–1892, by Winfield J. Davis, 1893.
  29. Old Block’s Sketch-Book; or, Tales of California Life, by Alonzo Delano, 1856.
  30. Exploration du Territoire de l’Orégon, des Californies et de la Mer Vermeille, by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, 1844.
  31. Voyage Autour du Monde, Principalement à la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich, by A. Duhaut-Cilly, 1834–35.
  32. The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco, by John W. Dwinelle, 1863.
  33. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance [sic], by W.H. Emory, 1848.
  34. The Missions and Missionaries of California, by Zephyrin Engelhardt, 1908–16.
  35. Estracto de Noticias del Puerto de Monterrey, by Gaspar de Portolá, 1770.
  36. Travels in the Californias and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean, by Thomas J. Farnham, 1844.
  37. Manifiesto a la República Mejicana, by José Figueroa, 1835.
  38. California: A History of Upper and Lower California, by Alexander Forbes, 1839.
  39. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, by J.C. Frémont, 1845.
  40. The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, by Francis Bret Harte, 1870.
  41. The Emigrants’ Guide, to Oregon and California, by Lansford W. Hastings, 1845.
  42. The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter, of California, by Theodore H. Hittell, 1860. 
  43. History of California, by Theodore H. Hittell, 1885–97.
  44. Reports of Land Cases, by Ogden Hoffman, 1862. 
  45. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide, by Simeon Ide, 1880. 
  46. Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson, 1884.
  47. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King, 1872.
  48. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und Nach der Berings-Strasse, by Otto von Kotzebue, 1821. 
  49. Voyage de la Pérouse Autour du Monde, by Jean-François de Galaup, comte de la Pérouse, 1797. 
  50. Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, by Zenas Leonard, 1839. 
  51. Death Valley in ’49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History, by William Lewis Manly, 1894.
  52. Mountains and Molehills; or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal, by Frank Marryat, 1855.
  53. History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra, by C.F. McGlashan, 1881.
  54. Narrative of Edward McGowan, by Edward McGowan, 1857. 
  55. Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History, by Joaquin Miller, 1873.
  56. The Mountains of California, by John Muir, 1894.
  57. Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853–1913, by Harris Newmark, 1916.
  58. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris, 1899.
  59. Relación Histórica de la Vida y Apostólicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra, by Francisco Palou, 1787.
  60. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky, by James O. Pattie, 1831. 
  61. Afoot and Alone: A Walk from Sea to Sea, by Stephen Powers, 1872. 
  62. Reglamento para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias, 1784.
  63. A Tour of Duty in California, by Joseph Warren Revere, 1849. 
  64. The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit, by John Rollin Ridge, 1854. 
  65. Life in California, by Alfred Robinson, 1846.
  66. California from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, by Josiah Royce, 1886. 
  67. Kit Carson Days (1809–1868), by Edwin L. Sabin, 1914. 
  68. Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government, by Charles Howard Shinn, 1885. 
  69. California, in 1851–52 by Dame Shirley, by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, 1854–55. 
  70. The Annals of San Francisco, by Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet, 1855.
  71. The Silverado Squatters, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883.
  72. The Early Days and Men of California, by W.F. Swasey, 1891. 
  73. Eldorado; or, Adventures in the Path of Empire, by Bayard Taylor, 1850.
  74. Oregon and California in 1848, by J. Quinn Thornton, 1849. 
  75. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846–1847, by Daniel Tyler, 1881. 
  76. Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham, 1878.
  77. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World, by George Vancouver, 1798.
  78. Noticia de la California, y de Su Conquista Temporal, by Miguèl Venegas, 1757. 
  79. California As It Is, and As It May Be; or, A Guide to the Gold Region, by F.P. Wierzbicki, 1849.
  80. Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel B. Woods, 1851.•