California

California includes 66 books, with history, fiction, nature, and reminiscences, by such authors as John Muir and Frank Norris. 17 of the books deal with San Francisco, and two cover the Donner tragedy.

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Table of Contents

• California by J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, 1849
• California 1849-1913 by L. H. Woolley
• California's 1909 Legislature by Franklin Hichborn
• California and Californians by David Starr Jordan (short)
• California Romantic and Resourceful by John Davis
• California Sketches by O.P. Fitzgerald
• The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton
• The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, and California by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont, 1852
• The Famous Missions of California by William Henry Hudson
• Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and Katharine Caroline Bushnell [about Chinese slavery in California]
• History of California by Helen Bandini
• History of the Donner Party: a Tragedy fo the Sierra by C.F. McGlashan
• How Members of Congress are Bribed. An Open Letter. A Protest and a Petition form a Citizen of California to the United States Congress by Joseph H. Moore
• In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard, 1912
• Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity: Their History, Customers, and Traditions by Galen Clark
• John L. Stoddard's Lectures, volume 10: Southen California, Grand Canon of the Colorado River, Yellowstone National Park
• Lake of the Sky. Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada by George Wharton James
• The Mountain that Was "God" by John H. Williams
• The Mountains of California by John Muir, 1894
• Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest, compiled and edited by Katharine and Berry Judson
• Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
• Old Franciscan Missions of California by George James
• Out of Doors: California and Oregon by J.A. Graves
• Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California by Stephen Field, 1893
• Starr King in California by William Simmonds
• Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon by John Muir
• Stories of California by Ella Sexton, 1903
• What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant, 1849
• The Yosemite by John Muir

San Francisco

• An Assessment of the consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: findings and Actions Taken, 1980
• A Backward Glance at 80 by Charles Murdock, 1921
• By the Golden Gate or San Francisco, Queen City of the Pacific Coast by Joseph Carey, 1902
• Byways Around San Francisco Bay by W.E. Hutchinson
• The City that Was: a Requiem of Old San Francisco by Will Irwin (short)
• Fascinating San Francisco
• Legends of San Francisco by George Caldwell
• The Lure of San Francisco: a Romance amid Old Landmarks by Elizabeth Gray Potter
• The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco by Zoeth Eldredge
• Palaces and Courts of the Exposition [in San Francisco] by Juliet James
• Reminiscences of a Pioneer by Colonel Willam Thompson, 1912
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire edited by Charles Morris
• San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906 by James Stetson (short)
• A Sketch of the Causes, Operations, and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 (short) by Sephen Webb
• Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam by Hubert Howe Bancroft (short)
• The Vigilance Committee [of San Francisco] of '56 by James O'Meara
• Vignettes of San Francisco by Almira Bailey

Fiction

Gertrude Atherton

• The Californians

Mary Austin

• The Lovely Lady

R.M. Ballantyne

• Digging for Gold

David Belasco

• The Girl of the Golden West
• The Return of Peter Grimm (novelized from the play)

Margaret Blake-Alverson

• Sixty Years of Califonia Song, 1913

Charles Gunnison

• The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria

John Habberton

• Romance of California Life

Angelo Hall

• Forty-One Thieves, a Tale of California

Helen Hunt (H.H.) Jackson

• Ramona

David Starr Jordan

• The Story of the Innumerable Company and Other Sketches

Jack London

• The Acorn-Planter, a California Forest Play
• John Barleycorn

Everett McNeil

• The Cave of Gold, a Tale of California in '49

Frank Norris

• McTeague: a Story of San Francisco
• The Octopus: a Story of California

James Richardson

• Spring Street, a Story of Los Angeles

Wyn Roosevelt

• Frontier Boys in Frisco

Kate Sanborn

• A Truthful Woman in Southern California

Julia Sloane

• The Smiling Hill-Top and Other California Sketches

Burt Standish

• Owen Clancy's Happy Trail; or, the Motor Wizard in California