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Eichengreen, Barry.
Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance, 1919–1939
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Eichengreen, Barry.
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
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Ellis, HenryHiram.
From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer. Selected by Lucy Ellis Riddell. Edited by Laurence R. Cook
Warren F. Lewis : Los Angeles 1959
Emparan, MadieBrown.
The Vallejos of California
Gleeson Library Associates of the University of San Francisco : San Francisco 1968
Fairchild, Lucius.
California Letters of Lucius Fairchild. Edited by Joseph Schafer
State Historical Society of Wisconsin : Madison 1931
Farkas, Lani Ah Tye.
Bury My Bones in America: The Saga of a Chinese Family in California, 1852–1996, from San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines
Carl Mautz Publishing : Nevada City, Calif. 1998
Farnham, ElizaW.
California In-Doors and Out: Or How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State
Dix, Edwards & Co. : New York 1856
Farnham, ThomasJefferson
Travels in California. 1855
Biobooks : Oakland 1947
Fellman, Michael.
Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Random House : New York 1995
Fiero, Bill.
Geology of the Great Basin
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Finkelman, Paul.
“The Law of Slavery and Freedom in California, 1848–1860.”
California Western Law Review
17 (1981): 437–64.
Franklin, WilliamE.
“The Archy Case: The California Supreme Court Refuses to Free a Slave.”
Pacific Historical Review
32 (1963): 137–54.
Freehling, WilliamW.
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854
Oxford University Press : New York 1990
Frémont, JessieBenton.
A Year of American Travel: Narrative of Personal Experience. 1878
Book Club of California : San Francisco 1960
Frémont, JessieBenton.
The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont. Edited by Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence
University of Illinois Press : Urbana, Ill. 1993
Frémont, JohnCharles.
Memoirs of My Life
Belford, Clarke & Co. : Chicago 1887
Frémont, JohnCharles.
The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont. 3 vols. plus maps. Edited by Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence.
University of Illinois Press : Urbana, Ill. 1970–84
Friedman, Milton, and Anna Jacobson Schwartz.
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960
Princeton University Press : Princeton, N.J. 1963
Gasparrini, Claudia.
Gold and Other Precious Metals
Springer-Verlag : Berlin 1993
Gay, Theressa.
James W. Marshall: The Discoverer of California Gold
Talisman Press : Georgetown, Calif. 1967
Gerstäcker, Frederick.
Gerstäcker’s Travels: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Ride through the Pampas, Winter Journey across the Cordilleras, Chili, Valparaiso, California and the Gold Fields
T. Nelson & Sons : London 1854
Glasscock, C.B.
Big Bonanza: The Story of the Comstock Lode
Bin-fords & Mort : Portland, Ore. 1931
Gray, Jack.
Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s
Oxford University Press : Oxford, England 1990
Greeley, Horace.
An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859. 1860. Edited by Charles T. Duncan
Alfred A. Knopf : New York 1964
Greer, RichardA.
“California Gold: Some Reports to Hawaii.”
Hawaiian Journal of History
4 (1970): 157–73.
Gregson, ElizaMarshallJames Gregson
The Gregson Memoirs
L. R. Kennedy : San Francisco 1940
Gudde, ErwinG.
California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities Where Gold was Found and Mined; Wayside Stations and Trading Centers. Edited by Elisabeth K. Gudde
University of California Press : Berkeley 1975
Gunn, Lewis C. Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn.
Records of a California Family: Journals and Letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn. Edited by Ann Lee Marston
no publisher given : San Diego 1928
Hamilton, Holman.
Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850
W. W. Norton : New York 1966
Hargraves, EdwardHammond.
Australia and Its Gold Fields
H. Ingram & Co. : London 1855
Harpending, Asbury.
The Great Diamond Hoax, and Other Stirring Incidents in the Life of Asbury Harpending. Edited by James H. Wilkins
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman 1958
Harris, BenjaminButler.
The Gila Trail: The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush. Edited by Richard H. Dillon
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman 1960
Harte, Bret.
Bret Harte’s California: Letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian Register, 1866–67. Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
University of New Mexico Press : Albuquerque 1990
Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company. Around the Horn in ’49: Journal of the Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company. Printed on board the Henry Lee by L. J. Hall, 1849.
Heiskell, HughBrown.
A Forty-Niner from Tennessee: The Diary of Hugh Brown Heiskell. Edited by Edward M. Steel
University of Tennessee Press : Knoxville 1998
Helper, HintonR.
The Land of Gold: Reality versus Fiction
Henry Taylor : Baltimore 1855
Herr, Pamela.
Jessie Benton Frémont
Franklin Watts : New York 1987
Hill, Mary.
Geology of the Sierra Nevada
University of California Press : Berkeley 1975
Hill, Mary.
Gold: The California Story
University of California Press : Berkeley 1999
Hittell, JohnS.
A History of the City of San Francisco, and Incidentally of the State of California
A. L. Bancroft & Co. : San Francisco 1878
Hittell, JohnS.
The Resources of California, Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography, Climate, Commerce, etc. etc. and the Past and Future Development of the State
A. Roman & Co. : San Francisco 1863
Hittell, TheodoreH.
History of California. 4 volumes.
Pacific Press and N. J. Stone & Co. : San Francisco 1885–97
Hofsommer, DonL.
The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985
Texas A&M University Press : College Station, Tex. 1986
Holliday, J.S.
Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
Oakland Museum of California and University of California Press : Oakland and Berkeley 1999
Holliday, J.S.
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
Simon & Schuster : New York 1981 (This volume reproduces diaries and some letters of William Swain.)
Hoover, Herbert.
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover. 3 volumes.
Macmillan : New York 1951–52
Howe, Octavius T.Frederick C.Matthews.
American Clipper Ships, 1833–1858. 1926–27
Dover : New York 1986
Hughes, Robert.
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding
Alfred A. Knopf : New York 1987
Hunt, CharlesB.
Death Valley: Geology, Ecology, Archaeology
University of California Press : Berkeley 1975
Hurtado, AlbertL.
Indian Survival on the California Frontier
Yale University Press : New Haven, Conn. 1988
Hurtado, AlbertL.
Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California
University of New Mexico Press : Albuquerque 1999
Hutchings, JamesM.
Seeking the Elephant: James M. Hutchings’ Journal of His Overland Trek to California, Including His Voyage to America, 1848, and His
Letters from the Mother Lode. Edited by Shirley Sargent
Arthur H. Clark Co. : Glendale, Calif. 1980
Hutchings’ California Magazine.
Reprinted as Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity from Hutchings’ California Magazine, 1856–1861. Edited by R. R. Olmsted
Howell-North : Berkeley, Calif. 1962
Ingalls, EleazarStillman.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850–51
Galleon Press : Fairfield, Wash. 1979
Jackson, DonaldDale.
Gold Dust
Alfred A. Knopf : New York 1980
Jackson, Joseph Henry, ed.
Gold Rush Album
Charles Scribner’s Sons : New York 1949
Jefferson, T.H.
Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, Mo., to San Francisco, California. 1849. Edited by George R. Stewart
California Historical Society : San Francisco 1945
Johnson, SusanLee.
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
W. W. Norton : New York 2000
Johnson, TheodoreT.
Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way
Baker & Scribner : New York 1849
Kaplan, DavidA.
The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams
William Morrow : New York 1999
Kelley, RobertL.
Gold vs. Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California’s Sacramento Valley: A Chapter in the Decline of the Concept of Laissez Faire
Arthur H. Clark Company : Glendale, Calif. 1959
Kelly, William.
An Excursion to California over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada, with a Stroll Through the Diggings and Ranches of That Country. 2 vols. 1851
Arno Press : New York 1973
Kemble, JohnHaskell.
The Panama Route, 1848–1869
University of South Carolina Press : Columbia 1990
Kinder, Gary.
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Atlantic Monthly Press : New York 1998
Kip, Leonard.
California Sketches, with Recollections of the Gold Mines
N. A. Kovach : Los Angeles 1946
Klein, Maury.
Union Pacific: Birth of a Railroad, 1862–1893
Double- day : New York 1987
Langworthy, Franklin.
Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines. 1855. Edited by Paul C. Phillips
Princeton University Press : Princeton, N.J. 1932
Lapp, RudolphM.
Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case
Book Club of California : San Francisco 1969
Lapp, RudolphM.
Blacks in Gold Rush California
Yale University Press : New Haven, Conn. 1977
Larkin, ThomasOliver.
The Larkin Papers: Personal, Business, and Official Correspondence of Thomas Oliver Larkin, Merchant and United States Consul in California. Edited by George P. Hammond. 11 volumes
University of California Press : Berkeley 1951–68
Latta, FrankF.
Joaquín Murrieta and His Horse Gangs
Bear State Books : Santa Cruz 1980
Lecouvreur, Frank.
From East Prussia to the Golden Gate: Letters and Diary of the California Pioneer. Edited by Josephine Rosana Lecouvreur. Translated by Julius C. Behnke
Angelina Book Concern : New York 1906
Letts, J.M.
California Illustrated: Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes
R. T. Young : New York 1853
Levy, Joann.
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
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Lewis, Lloyd.
Sherman: Fighting Prophet
Harcourt, Brace : New York 1932
Lewis, Michael.
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
W.W. Norton : New York 2000
Lewis, Oscar.
Sea Routes to the Gold Fields: The Migration by Water to California in 1849–1852
Alfred A. Knopf : New York 1949
Lewis, Oscar.
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific
Alfred A. Knopf : New York 1938
Lienhard, Heinrich.
A Pioneer at Sutter’s Fort, 1846–1850: The Adventures of Heinrich Lienhard. From the 1898 German edition. Translated and edited by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur
The Calafia Society : Los Angeles 1941
López Urrutia, Carlos.
Episodios Chilenos en California, 1849–1860
Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaiso : Valparaiso 1975
Lotchin, RogerW.
San Francisco, 1846–1856: From Hamlet to City
Oxford University Press : New York 1974
Manly, WilliamLewis.
Death Valley in ’49. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife
R. R. Donnelley and Sons : Chicago 1927
Marks, PaulaMitchell.
Precious Dust: The American Gold Rush Era, 1848–1900
William Morrow : New York 1994
Marryat, Frank.
Mountains and Molehills, or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal. 1855
J. B. Lippincott : Reprint: Philadelphia 1962
Marszalek, JohnE.
Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order
Vintage Books : New York 1994
Massey, Ernestde.
A Frenchman in the Gold Rush: The Journal of Ernest de Massey, Argonaut of 1849. Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur
California Historical Society : San Francisco 1927
McKittrick, MyrtleM.
Vallejo: Son of California
Binford & Mort : Portland 1944
McLeod, Alexander.
Pigtails and Gold Dust: A Panorama of Chinese Life in Early California
Caxton Printers : Caldwell, Idaho 1947
M’Collum, William.
California as I Saw It: Pencillings by the Way of Its Gold and Gold Diggers, and Incidents of Travel by Land and Water. Edited by Dale L. Morgan
Talisman Press : Los Gatos, Calif. 1960
McGowan, Edward.
Narrative of Edward McGowan, including a Full Account of the Author’s Adventures and Perils while Persecuted by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. 1857
Thomas C. Russell : San Francisco 1917
McPhee, John.
Assembling California
Farrar, Straus and Giroux : New York 1993