Below is a list of (most of) the California related books on my bookshelf. Some are more Calif. related than others and some are fiction based on actual events.  I can do specific lookup in a book or two but cannot search every book for data.

Author	Title
George R. Stewart	The California Trail	Sierra crossings, 1841-8
Joshua Paddison	A World Transformed	Firsthand accts before 1848
David Hackett Fischer	Albion's Seed	England transplanted to USA
	History of Lake Co. Calif. 1881	You get what you pay for
J. S. Holliday	The World Rushed In	N.Y. to Lassen Cutoff in 1849
Aurelius O. Carpenter	History of Mendocino & Lake Co, Calif, '14	History and Biographies
Janice Marschner	California, A Snapshot in Time, 1850	Ranchos & county lines
O. Henry Mace	Between the Rivers	History of Early Calaveras County
Douglas Monroy	Thrown Among Strangers	When world met local indians
ed:Dr. Doyce B. Nunis	The Bidwell-Bartleson Party	All known accounts of the party members
Charles Francis Saunders	A Little Book of California Missions	from 1925, good older pix
Helen Holdridge	Mammy Pleasant's Partner	New Almaden and San Francicco
Anne Segraves	Soiled Doves	Prostitution in the Old West
Dale L. Morgan	Jedadiah Smith	Some from his diary, I believe.
Lin Weber	Old Napa Valley	History to 1900
Marc Simmons	Following th San ta Fe Trail	We.ve done half of it
Walter Colton	Three Years in Calif	I've not yet read it
John Young	Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains	From S.J.Merc. 1934
Jerry Flamm	Hometown San Francisco
Ward Winslow	Palo Alto Centtennial	The book of the Town of P.A.
Thomas McHenry	California Cavalier	Journal of Thomas Fallon
Allan Brown	Golden Gate	Biograpjhy of a Beidge
Charles Nordhoff	Calif. for Travellers and Settlers	Post-railroad gee-whiz book.
Agusta Fink	Monterey County	The dramatic story of its past
Sandy Lydon	Chinese Gold	Chinese in Montery Bay Region
Alan Rosenus	General Vallejo	& the Advent of the Americans
Theodora Krober	Ishi	The story of the indian Ishi
Dale Walker	Bear Flag Rising	Story of the Bear Flag Results
Lambert Florin	Ghost Towns of the West	Lots of towns
Barbara Warner	Men of the Bear Flag Revolt & Their Hertage	Lots of genealogy
Kit Carson	Autobiography	Quite abbriviated
Terence Emmons	Around Calif. in 1891
David Eames	San Francisco Street Secrets	Behind the Names
Jean LaPerouse	Life in a Calif. Mission	Monterey in 1786
Susan Butruille	Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail	I've not yet read it
George R. Stewart	Ordel by Hunger	Donner Party
George R. Stewart	Donner Pass	I've not yet read it
Louise Clappe	The Shirley Letters	1858-'51
Francis Parkman	The Oregon Trail	1846
Geiger & Bryarly	Trail to Calif.	from an 1849 Diary
Lake Co. Hist. Soc.	Pictorial Review of the Past II
Alice Deacon	Scottslandia	Scott's Valley, Lake Co.
Bd. of Supervisors	Desc. of Lake Co. Calif	1888, 100th Anneversary
Henry Mauldin	Hist. of Clear Lake, Mt. Knocti & the Lake Co.
Ruth Lewis et al	Stories & Legends of Lake Co.
Dorothy Bear et al	Mendocino
Laura Hopper Sankey	Mendocino Beginnings
August Heeser et al	Mendocino Past & Present
Greg MacGregor	Overland	Photos & text of Emigrant Trail
Calif. Hist. Society	Rooted in Barbarous Soil	Gold Rush Era calif.
Wm. Dollarhide	American Migration Patterns 1715-1815	With Maps
J. Kingston Price	San Francisco, You're History	Early Characters
W. Storrs Lee ed.	Calif., a Literary Review	Older stuff
Wm. Bryant	What I Saw in Calif.	He Travelled with the Calif. Battalion
Ferol Egan	Explorer for a Restless Nation	Log of John C. Frémont
Soulé, Gihon, Nisbet	Annals of San Francisco (the city in 1854)	History of discovery, settlement & business.
Terry Ruschin	Mission Memories	Good Mission history
Marquis McDonald	Missions of Baja California	This is what you pay for!
	Calif. Placenames	Good selection

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22Nov'01