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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Dame Shirley

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851‑52 present a series of twenty‑three epistolary fragments…

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

Caroline C. Leighton

Caroline C. Leighton’s Life at Puget Sound is a sprawling travelogue that blends personal narrative with…

Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California

Mary E. Anderson

Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travel memoir compiled from the…

The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin

Los gringos; or, An inside view of Mexico and California: with wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia

H. A. Wise

Old Mexico and her lost provinces: A journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona by way of Cuba

William Henry Bishop

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

Charles Nordhoff

The Mountains of California

John Muir

The California Birthday Book Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each

Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico

Pattie, James O. (James Ohio); Malte-Brun, Conrad; Willard, Dr.

The Silverado Squatters

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal

Frank Marryat

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

John Muir

The Mountains

Stewart Edward White

On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California

Thos. D. Murphy

Prentice Mulford's story: Life by Land and Sea

Prentice Mulford

On Horseback

Charles Dudley Warner

Roughing it De Luxe

Irvin S. Cobb

A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

T. D. Beasley

Sixteen months at the gold diggings

Daniel B. Woods

The Californiacs

Inez Haynes Gillmore

The land of gold; Reality Versus Fiction

Hinton Rowan Helper

In the Footprints of the Padres

Charles Warren Stoddard

What I Saw in California A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants; to Which is Annexed an Appendix Containing Official Documents and Letters Authenticating the Accounts of the Quantities of Gold Found, with Its Actual Value Ascertained by Chemical Assay; also Late Communications Containing Accounts of the Highest Interest and Importance from the Gold Districts; with a Map

Edwin Bryant