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McPhee, John.
Basin and Range
Farrar, Straus and Giroux : New York 1981

Megquier, MaryJane.
Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849–1856. Edited by Robert Glass Cleveland
Huntington Library : San Marino 1949

Monaghan, Jay.
Australians and the Gold Rush: California and Down Under, 1849–1854
University of California Press : Berkeley 1966

Monaghan, Jay.
Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849
University of California Press : Berkeley 1973

Moorman, MadisonBerryman.
The Journal of Madison Berryman Moorman. Edited by Irene D. Paden
California Historical Society : San Francisco 1948

Morgan, DaleL.
The Humboldt: Highroad of the West
Farrar & Rinehart : New York 1943

Morison, James.
By Sea to San Francisco: The Journal of Dr. James Morison. Edited by Lonnie J. White and William R. Gillaspie
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Morrell, W.P.
The Gold Rushes
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Myers, JohnMyers.
San Francisco’s Reign of Terror
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Myres, Sandra L., ed.
Ho for California! Women’s Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library
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Nasatir, AbrahamP.
The French in the California Gold Rush
Franco- American Pamphlet Series : New York 1934

Nasatir, AbrahamP.
French Activities in California: An Archival Calendar-Guide
Stanford University Press : Stanford, Calif. 1945

Nasaw, David.
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
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Nash, GeorgeH.
The Life of Herbert Hoover. 3 volumes.
W.W. Norton : New York 1983–96

Navarro, RamónGil.
The Gold Rush Diary of Ramón Gil Navarro. Edited and translated by María del Carmen Ferreyra and David S. Reher
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Nevins, Allan.
Frémont: Pathmarker of the West
Longman, Green & Co. : New York 1955

Nevins, Allan.
Frémont: The West’s Greatest Adventurer
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Norris, Frank.
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Geology of California. 2nd ed
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Older, Mr. and Mrs. Frémont.
George Hearst: California Pioneer
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Osio, AntonioMaría.
The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California. Translated and edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
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Paul, RodmanW.
California Gold: The Beginning of Mining in the Far West
Harvard University Press : Cambridge, Mass. 1947

Paul, Rodman W., ed.
The California Gold Discovery: Sources, Documents, Accounts and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter’s Mill
Talisman Press : Georgetown, Calif. 1966

Pérez Rosales, Vicente.
California Adventure. Translated from the Spanish original—Recuerdos del Pasado—by Edwin S. Morby and Arturo Torres-Rioseco
Book Club of California : San Francisco 1947

Perlot, Jean-Nicolas.
Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years. Translated by Helen Harding Bretnor. Edited and introduced by Howard R. Lamar
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Peterson, MerrillD.
The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
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Pfeiffer, Ida.
A Lady’s Visit to California, 1853. 1856
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Phillips, CatherineCoffin.
Jessie Benton Frémont: A Woman Who Made History
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Pitt, Leonard.
The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish- Speaking Californians, 1846–1890
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Potter, DavidM.
The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Procter, Ben. William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years, 1863–1910
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Report of the Debates in the Convention of California on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849. Edited by J. Ross Browne. Washington: John T. Towers, 1850
Arno Press : Reprinted New York 1973

Richman, IrvingBerdine.
California under Spain and Mexico, 1535–1847. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.———. California under Spain and Mexico, 1535–1847
Houghton Mifflin : Boston 1911

Riesenberg, Felix.
Cape Horn
Dodd, Mead : New York 1939

Roberts, Brian.
American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Robinson, Judith. The Hearsts: An American Dynasty
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Rohrbough, MalcolmJ.
Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Rosenus, Alan. General M. G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans: A Biography
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Royce, Josiah.
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Houghton Mifflin, 1886 : Boston 1914

Royce, Josiah.
The Hope of the Great Community
Macmillan : New York 1916

Royce, Josiah.
The Letters of Josiah Royce. Edited by John Clendenning
University of Chicago Press : Chicago 1970

Royce, Sarah.
A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California. Edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel
Yale University Press : New Haven, Conn. 1932

Sawyer, Lorenzo. Way Sketches: Containing Incidents of Travel across the Plains from St. Joseph to California. Selections from the Wisconsin Family Visitor. No publisher or date given.

Scherer, JamesA. B.
The First Forty-Niner, and the Story of the Golden Tea-Caddy
Minton, Balch & Co. : New York 1925

Schmidbaur, Hubert, ed.
Gold: Progress in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Technology
John Wiley & Sons : Chichester, England 1999

Schultz, CharlesR.
Forty-Niners ’Round the Horn
University of South Carolina Press : Columbia 1999

Scroggs, WilliamO.
Filibusters and Financiers: The Story of William Walker and His Associates
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Shaw, Pringle.
Ramblings in California: Containing a Description of the Country, Life at the Mines, State of Society, & C.
James Bain, no date given. : Toronto:

Shaw, William.
Golden Dreams and Waking Realities; Being the Adventures of a Gold-Seeker in California and the Pacific Islands. 1851
Arno Press : New York 1973

Sherman, William Tecumseh, and John Sherman.
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Sherman, WilliamTecumseh.
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Sherman, WilliamTecumseh.
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Shinn, CharlesHoward.
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Shirley, Dame (Louise Amelia Knapp).
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Sinclair, John.
Geological Aspects of Mining
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Smith, Azariah.
The Gold Discovery Journal of Azariah Smith. Edited by David L. Bigler
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Snyder, EugeneE.
Early Portland: Stump-Town Triumphant
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Soulé, Frank; John H. Gihon James Nisbet.
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Lewis Osborne : Palo Alto, Calif. 1966 Although this was a joint work, Soulé was the lead author and moving spirit; for the sake of simplicity in the present text, statements made in the Annals have been attributed to him.

Spence, JonathanD.
The Search for Modern China
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Spoehr, Alexander.
“Hawaii and the Gold Rush: George Allan of the Hudson’s Bay Company Reports on His 1848 Pursuit of Captain John Sutter.”
Hawaiian Journal of History
26 (1992): 123–32.

Starr, Kevin.
Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915
Oxford University Press : New York 1973

Starr, Kevin, and Richard J. Orsi, eds.
Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California
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Stellman, LouisJ.
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Stephens, L.Dow.
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Sutherland, C.H.
V. Gold: Its Beauty, Power and Allure
McGraw-Hill : New York 1959

Sutter, JohnA.
New Helvetia Diary: A Record of Events Kept by John A. Sutter and His Clerks at New Helvetia, California, from September 9, 1845, to May 25, 1848
Grabhorn Press : San Francisco 1939

Swan, JohnA.
A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848. Edited by John A. Hussey
Book Club of California : San Francisco 1960

Taylor, Bayard.
Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire. 1850
Rio Grande Press : Glorieta, N.M. 1967

Taylor, R.R.
Seeing the Elephant: Letters of R. R. Taylor, Forty-Niner. Edited by John Walton Caughey
Ward Ritchie Press : No place given 1951

Timberlake, RichardH.
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Twain, Mark, and Charles Dudley Warner.
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Twain, Mark.
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Harper & Bros. : New York 1917

Twain, Mark.
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McGraw-Hill : New York 1963

Twain, Mark.
Roughing It. 1871
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Tyson, JamesL.
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D. Appleton & Co. : New York 1850

Unruh, John D. Jr.
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University of Illinois Press : Urbana 1978

VanDorn, William G.
Oceanography and Seamanship
Dodd, Mead : New York 1974

VanNostrand, Jeanne, and Edith, M. Coulter.
California Pictorial: A History in Contemporary Pictures, 1786 to 1859
University of California Press : Berkeley 1948

Varley, JamesF.
The Legend of Joaquín Murrieta: California’s Gold Rush Bandit
Big Lost River Press : Twin Falls, Idaho 1995

Villiers, Alan.
The War with Cape Horn
Charles Scribner’s Sons : New York 1971

Walker, William.
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Ware, JosephE.
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Warren, T.Robinson.
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Wells, WilliamV.
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Whipple, A. B. C.
The Challenge
William Morrow : New York 1987

Wienphal, Robert W., ed.
A Gold Rush Voyage on the Bark Orion from Boston around Cape Horn to San Francisco, 1849–1850
Arthur H. Clarke Co. : Glendale, Calif. 1978

Williams, MaryFloyd.
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Wilson, Elinor.
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Wilson, LuzenaStanley.
Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter Corennah Wilson Wright.
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Woods, DanielB.
Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings
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Wright, William
(“Dan De Quille”). The Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World-Renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada. Reprint of the 1876 edition. Introduction by Oscar Lewis
Alfred A. Knopf : New York 1947

Wyman, Walker D., ed.
California Emigrant Letters
Bookman Associates : New York 1952

Illustration Credits

Sutter’s Fort
: Library of Congress

The mill at Coloma
: California State Library

North America circa 1852
: map by Laura Hartman Maestro

Ready for anything
: California State Library

Entering the mountains
: Library of Congress

The Challenge
: Peabody Essex Museum

Jean-Nicolas Perlot
: Bancroft Library

A long tom
: California State Library

Chinese miners
: California State Library

California in the 1850’s
: map by Laura Hartman Maestro