California history books -

We are working hard to get more books on our virtual shelves. (We are digging through all the California history titles we can find.) 

 As with our own books, you can purchase these books now, through our association with Amazon.com.

What are you interested in? We have something on the Gold Rush, California Missions, Chinese in California, the Indian occupation of Alcatraz and the Donner Party....

Eventually we intend to have a comprehensive presentation on hundreds of California history titles, including materials for 4th grade students and teachers. If it is California History, we want you to find it here.

Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea

After the Gold Rush : Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849-1870 by Ralph Mann

Alcatraz! Alcatraz! : The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971 (California Indian Series) by Adam Fortunate Eagle, Ilka Hartmann (Photographer), Eagle Adam Fortunate

The American Indian : Yesterday Today and Tomorrow a Handbook for Educators

American Indians As Cowboys by Clifford E. Trafzer

Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr

The Anti-Chinese Movement in California by Elmer Clarence Sandmeyer

Apron Full of Gold : The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco 1849-1856 by Polly Welts Kaufman (Editor)

Bad Company : The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen, and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties by Joseph Henry Jackson

Badge and Buckshot : Lawlessness in Old California by John Boessenecker

Barrio Rhythm : Mexican American Music in Los Angeles (Music in American Life) by Steven Loza

Battling the Inland Sea : American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 by Robert Lloyd Kelley

Beauty of the California Missions by Lee Foster

Blacks in Gold Rush California (Yale Western Americana Series, vol. 29) by Rudolph M. Lapp

Bright Gem of the Western Seas : California, 1846-1852 : Early Recollections of the Mines, Tulare Plains, Life in California : A Report of the Tulare by Peter Browning (Editor), Carson. James H. (Editor), George Horatio Derby, James H. Carson

California : An Interpretive History by James J. Rawls, Walton Bean

California Conquered : The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850 by Neal Harlow

California Cowboys by Dane Coolidge

California : A History by Andrew F. Rolle

California Forests and Woodlands : A Natural History (California Natural History Guides , No 58) by Verna R. Johnston, Carla J. Simmons

The California Frontier 1863-1865 (The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted) by Frederick Law Olmsted, Gerard J. Rauluk, Carolyn, F. Hoffman, Frederick Law Olmstead

California Gardens : Creating a New Eden by David C. Streatfield

California Gold : A Novel by John Jakes

The California Gold Rush (Cornerstones of Freedom) by R. Conrad Stein, Rudolf Steiner

The California Gold Rush : West With the Forty-Niners (A First Book) by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Steenwyk Elizabeth Van

The California Gold Rush (World History Series) by Tom Ito

California Here We Come! by Pam Munoz Ryan, Kay Salem (Illustrator)

California in 1792 : A Spanish Naval Visit (American Exploration and Travel Series, Vol 71) by Donald C. Cutter

California Indian Country : The Land and the People by Dolan H Eargle

The California Indians : A Source Book by Robert Fleming Heizer (Editor)

California Mammals (California Natural History Guides, No 52) by Hans Peeters, Everett William Jameson

California Missions by Sunset Editors

California Place Names; The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. by Erwin Gustav, Gudde

California Progressivism Revisited by William Deverell, Tom Sitton (Editor)

California Sketches by Mark Twain

The California Trail : An Epic With Many Heroes by George Rippey Stewart

The California Trail : Yesterday and Today by William E. Hill

California - Why Stop ? A Guide to California Roadside Historical Markers by Marael Johnson

California's Daughter : Gertrude Atherton and Her Times by Emily Wortis Leider

California's Sierra Nevada by George Wuerthner

California's Spanish Place-Names : What They Mean and How They Got There by Barbara Marinacci, Rudy Marinacci

Californias Indians and the Gold Rush by Clifford E. Trafzer

California's Gold Rush Country : A Guide to the Best of the Mother Lode by Barbara Braasch

Camp 4 : Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber by Steve Roper

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives : Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry 1930-1950 by Vicki L. Ruiz, Cicki L. Ruiz

Carson-Iceberg Wilderness by Jeffrey P. Schaffer

The Cave Paintings of Baja California : Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People (Sunbelt Natural History Books) by Harry W. Crosby

Chicanos in a Changing Society : From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930 by Albert Camarillo

The Civil War in Apacheland : Sergeant George Hand's Diary, California, Arizona, West Texas, New Mixico, 1861-1864 by George Hand

Contested Eden : California Before the Gold Rush (California History Sesquicentennial Series) by Ramon A. Gutierrez (Editor), Richard J. Orsi (Editor)

Coit Tower, San Francisco, Its History and Art by Masha Zakheim Jewett

Comrades and Chicken Ranchers : The Story of a California Jewish Community (Cornell Paperbacks) by Kenneth L. Kann

Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 by Lisbeth Haas

Covered Wagon Women : Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1852 : The California Trail by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor)

Creation of a California Tribe by Trafzer, Clifford E. Trafzer, Lee Ann Smith-Trafzer

Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush (Stories of America) by James J. Rawls, John Holder (Illustrator), Jim Rawls

Days of Gold : The California Gold Rush and the American Nation by Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Denial of Disaster : The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire or 1906 by Gladys Hansen, Emmet Condon, David Fowler (Editor)

The Destruction of California Indians : A Collection of Documents from the Period 1847 to 1865 in Which Are Described Some of the Things That Happened by Robert Fleming Heizer (Editor)

Digger : The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush by Jerry Stanley

The Discovery of San Francisco Bay : The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770/El Descubrimiento De LA Bahia De San Francisco : LA Expedicion De Portola De by Miguel Costanso, Peter Browning (Editor)

Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 Which Led to That Event by Lafayette Houghton, Bunnell

The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned : A Photographic Record of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire by William Bronson

Earthquake! : San Francisco, 1906 (Stories of America) by Kate Wilson, Richard Courtney (Illustrator)

East Los Angeles : History of a Barrio by Ricardo Romo

The Emigrants' Guide, to Oregon and California, Containing Scenes and Incidents of a Party of Oregon Emigrants by Lansford W. Hastings

Entry Denied : Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943 (Asian American History and Culture) by Sucheng Chan (Editor)

The First Suburban Chinatown : The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (Asian American History and Culture Series) by Timothy P. Fong

The Fisherman's Problem : Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (Studies in Environment and History) by Arthur F. McEvoy

Fortress California, 1910-1961 : From Warfare to Welfare by Roger W. Lotchin

Founding the Far West : California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 by David Alan Johnson

The Fragmented Metropolis : Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (Classics in Urban History, Vol 3) by Robert M. Fogelson

Gabrielino a Southern California Indian Tribe by Bruce W. Miller

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California by Remi A. Nadeau

Gold : Being the Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator)

The Archaeology of the Donner Party (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities) by Donald L. Hardesty, Michael J. Brodhead

Great Indians of California by Harry Knill (Editor), Mariano Vallejo

The Great Los Angeles Swindle : Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties by Jules Tygiel

The Great Thirst : Californians and Water, 1770S-1990s by Norris Hundley

Greenbacks and Copperheads, 1859-1869 (The Neveda County Chronicles) by David A. Comstock

Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes : Violence on the Frontier by Roger D. McGrath

Handbook of the Indians of California by Alfred Louis Kroeber

Hardscrabble : A Narrative of the California Hill Country (Vintage West) by Anita Kunkler, Wilbur S. Shepperson (Editor)

Hillinger's California : Stories from All 58 Counties by Charles Hillinger
 

Historic San Francisco : A Concise History and Guide by Rand Richards

Historic Spots in California by Mildred Brooke Hoover

An Historical Album of California (Historical Albums) by Charles A. Wills

Historical Atlas of California, by Warren A. Beck

The History of Alta California : A Memoir of Mexican California  by Antonio Maria Osio, Trans. by Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz

History of the Donner Party : A Tragedy of the Sierra by Charles F. McGlashan, George H. Hinkle (Editor)

Hollywood in Crisis : Cinema and American Society 1929-1939 (Cinema and Society) by Colin Shindler

Hollywood Rhapsody : Movie Music and Its Makers, 1900 to 1975 by Gary Marmorstein

In the Floating Army : F.C. Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914 by Gregory R. Woirol

In the Land of the Grasshopper Song : Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09 by Mary Ellicott Arnold

Indian Painting : A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection by Pratapaditya Pal

Indian Survival on the California Frontier (Yale Western Americana Series, No 35) by Albert L. Hurtado

Indians and Indian Agents : The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-1852 by George Harwood Phillips

Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849 (The Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 207) by George Harwood Phillips

Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization : The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians by Robert H. Jackson, Edward Castillo

The Indians of California (American Indians) by Time Life Bks

The Indians of Southern California in 1852 : The B.D. Wilson Report and a Selection of Contemporary Comment by Benjamin Davis Wilson, John Walton Caughey (Editor), Albert L. Hurtado

Inventing the Dream : California Through the Progressive Era by Kevin Starr

The Island of California : A History of the Myth by Dora Beale Polk

Issei, Nisei, War Bride : Three Generations of  Japanese American Women in Domestic Service by Evelyn Nakano Glenn

It Happened in Southern California by Noelle Sullivan

John Sutter and a Wider West by Kenneth N. Owens (Editor)

Junipero Serra (Raintree Hispanic Stories) by Jan Gleiter, Kathleen Thompson, Charles Shaw

Junipero Serra (Hispanics of Achievement) by Sean Dolan

The Kikuchi Diary : Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp : The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikughi by Charles Kikuchi, John Modell (Editor)

The L.A. Musical History Tour : A Guide to the Rock and Roll Landmarks of Los Angeles
by Art Fein

Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Kirsten Backstrom :
"To understand the fashion of any life, one must know the land it is lived in and the
procession of the year." Mary Austin was one of this country's early writers of natural history
and natural philosophy; in her classic The Land of Little Rain she explores the deserts of
Arizona and Southern California, recording details of landscape and wildlife in prose that is
as expansive and exacting as the desert itself.

Lawman : The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912 by John Boessenecker

Lawmen & Desperadoes : A Compendium of Noted, Early California Peace Officers, Badmen and Outlaws 1850-1900 (Western Frontiersmen, No 24)  by William B. Secrest

Let Justice Be Done : Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco (Nevada Studies in History and Political Science, No. 28) by Kevin J. Mullen

Life in a California Mission : Monterey in 1786 : The Journals of Jean Francois De LA Perouse
by Jean-Francois De LA Perouse, Malcolm Margolin (Introduction), Linda Yamane, Jean Francois Laperouse

Lost Gold and Silver Mines of the Southwest by Eugene L. Conrotto

Love Stories of Old California by Cora Miranda Baggerly Older

Madams of San Francisco by Curt Gentry

Material Dreams : Southern California Through the 1920's by Kevin Starr

Millikan's School : A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith R. Goodstein

Music As Cultural Practice, 1800-1900 (California Studies in Nineteenth Century Music, Vol 8) by Lawrence Kramer

Napa by James Conaway

Native Americans of California and Nevada by Jack D. Forbes

A Natural History of California by Allan A. Schoenherr

The Natural World of the California Indians by Robert Fleming, Heizer, Albert B. Elsasser

Nature Writings : The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The      Mountains of California; Stickeen; Selected Essays (Library of by John Muir, William Cronon (Editor)

No Rooms of Their Own : Women Writers of Early California by Ida Rae Egli

Old Santa Clara Valley : A Guide to Historic Buildings from Palo Alto to Gilroy by Phyllis Filiberti Butler

On the Edge of America : California Modernist Art, 1900-1950 by Paul J. Karlstrom (Editor)

Overland in 1846 : Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail by Dale Morgan (Editor)

Overland : The California Emigrant Trail of 1841-1870

Pacific Visions : California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915

Poet Be Like God : Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance

Postsuburban California : The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II

Poverty Amid Prosperity : Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California

The Power of Place : Urban Landscapes As Public History

Promise Me the Dawn

Promise of the Valley (Westward Dreams, Bk 2)

The Public City : The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900

Quest for Empire : Spanish Settlement in the Southwest

Railroad Crossing : Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California

Rain of Gold

Religion and Society in Frontier California (Yale Historical Publications)

Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta, Robin Desser

The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement by Eric Cummins
 
 
 
 
 

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