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Selected Bibliography of California History


* * Overview * *

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. Vol I. 1886 . Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1963

Beilharz, Edwin A. Felipe de Neve: First Governor of California. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1971

Caeser, Gene., King of the Mountain Men: The Life of Jim Bridger, New York:EP Dalton., 1961

Campbell, Leon. "The first Californios: Presidial Society in Spanish California, 1769-1822," Journal of the West, XI (Oct. 1972): 583-595

Conley, Frances R. "We All Lived Together in the Presidio." The Californians V., 21-30

Costello, Julia G. and David Hornbeck. " California: An Overview." Columbian Consequences, V. I. Ed. David Hurst Thomas. 3 vols. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. 303-331

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, New York:Marmild Co., 1840

Forbes, Jack D. "Hispano-Mexican Pioneers of the San Francisco Bay Region: An Analysis of Racial Origins." Aztlan 14.1 ( 1983): 175-189

Garr, Daniel. "A Rare and Desolate Land: Population and Race in Hispanic California." Western History Quarterly, V.2 (1975): 133-148

Goetzman, William H., and Willims, Glyndwr, The Atlas of North American Expoloration, new york:Prentice-Hall, 1992

Guild, Thelma & Carter, Harvey., Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes, Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1984

Jackman, Jarrell C. Felipe de Goicoechea: Santa Barbara Presidio Comandante. Santa Barbara, CA: Anson Luman Press, 1993

Johnson, John R. "The Chumash and the Missions." Columbian Consequences, V. I. Ed. David Hurst Thomas. 3 vols. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. 365-375

Jones, Oakah L. Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979

MacLachlan, Colin M., and Jaime E. Rodriguez O. Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980

Meyer, Michael C., and William L. Sherman. The Course of Mexican History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979

Miranda, Gloria. "Hispano-Mexican Childrearing Practices in Pre-American Santa Barbara." New Directions in California History: A Book of Readings. Ed. James J. Rawls. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. 62-71

Moorhead, Max L. The Presidio: Bastion Of The Spanish Borderlands. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975

Morgan, Dale, L., Jedediah Smith and the opening of the West, Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1953

Nunis, Doyce B. "Medicine in Hispanic California." Southern California Quarterly, LXXXVI. 1 (1994). Reprint. KEEPSAKE from Friends of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 1995

Powell, Philip Wayne. "Genesis of the Frontier Presidio in North America." Western Historical Quarterly, XIII.2 (April 1982): 124-141

Rosenus, Alan, General MG Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans, Albuqueque:Univeristy of Mexico Press, 1955

Seed, Patricia. "Social Dimensions of Race: Mexico City, 1753." Hispanic American Historical Review 62.4 (1982): 569-606

Stewart, George R., The Opening of the California Trail, Berkeley:University of California Press, 1953

Vastal, Stanley, Kit Carson, Boston:Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1928

Whitehead, Richard S. " California's Four Fortresses." Southern California Quarterly, LXV (Spring 1983): 67-94
Citadel on the Channel. Santa Barbara and Spokane: Santa Barbara Trust for Historical Preservation and the Arthur H. Clark Co, 1996.

Williams, Jack S. Architecture and Defense of the Military Frontier of Arizona. Diss. University of Arizona, 1991

And for the Sacred and the Profane!

Editors of Sunset, The California Missions, Menlo Park:Lane Publishing, 1964

Miller, Ronald Dean., Shady Ladies of the West, Los Angeles:Westernlore Press, 1964

Drago, Harry Sinclair, Notorious Ladies of the Frontier, New York:Dodd Mead and Co., 1969

Gentry, Curtr, The Madams of San Francisco,Sausalitok:Comstock Editions, 1964


* * Overland Travel * *

Altrocchi, Julia Cooley, The Old California Trail. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers Ltd, 1945.

Bancroft, George Herbert, California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542 - 1848. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1964.

Beck, Warren and Haase, Ynez., Historical Atlas of California, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.

Bowman, Lynn, Los Angeles: Epic of Capacity, Berkeley: Howell- North Books, 1974.

Bryant, Edwin, What I Saw in California, Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, Inc., 1967.

Boggs, William M., A Short Biographical Sketch of Lilburn W. Boggs by His Son, Missouri Historical Review, January 1910, V4 No. 2 Pp. 106-110.

Chester,Michael, The Fort's of Old California, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Publishing Co, 1966.

Cross, Ralph Herbert, The Early Inns of California, San Francisco: Cross and Brandt, 1954.

Daily Alta California, March 19, 1860, 1-6.

DeVoto, Bernard, The Year of Decision: 1846, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1943.

Malone, Dumas, Editor, Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. VII. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.

Gordon, Joseph F., Political Career of Lilburn W. Boggs, Missouri Historical Review, January 1958 V. 52 No. 2, Pp. 111-122.

Guinn, J. M., History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Oakland and Environs, Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1907.

Haines,Aubrey, Historic Sites Along the Oregon Trail, Gerald, Missouri: Patrice Press,1981.

Harlan, Jacob Wright, California '46-'88, S. F: Bancroft Co., 1888.

Hart, Herbert, Pioneer Forts of the West, Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1967.

Hart, James D., A Companion to California, N.Y.: Oxford, 1978.

Hart, James D., A Companion to California, Revised, N.Y.: Americana, 1981.

Hastings, Lansford W., The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California, Reprint. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood, 1996.

Hill, William E., The California Trail Yesterday and Today, Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 1986.

History of Mendocino and Lake Counties Los Angeles: Historic Record, Company, 1914 .

History of Napa and Lake Counties, San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen, and Company, 1881.

Hopkins, Alan, Tule People: The Story of the Yokut Indians of the Tracy Area, Stockton, California: Johnson, 1968.

Hyde, George E., Pawnee Indians, Norman, Oklahoma: University Press, 1974.

James, George Wharton, In and Out of the Old Missions of California, Cambridge: University Press, 1905.

Lamar, Howard R. Ed., The Reader's Encyclopaedia of the American West, N.Y.:Crowell, 1977.

Frank F. Latta., Handbook of the Yokuts Indians, Santa Cruz, California :Bearstake,1949.

Luce, Willard & Celia, Sutter's Fort, Champaign, Illinois: Garrard Publishing Co, 1969.

Lyngheim, Linda, The Indians and the California Missions, Van Nuys, CA.: Langtry, 1984.

Mattes, Merrill, The Great Platte River Road, Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society Press, 1969.

Morgan, Dale, The Humboldt, New York: J. J. Little and Ives, Company, 1943.

Overland in 1846, Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Georgetown:The Tailisman Press, 1963.

National Encyclopaedia of American Biography, New York: White and Company, 1967.

Nadeau, Remi, Fort Laramie and the Sioux Indians, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1967.

Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol 47, No. 3 (July, 1956) "George Law Curry, Public Printer."

Roberts, Mike, The California Mission Story, Berkeley: Mike Roberts, 1951.

Rolle, Andrew F., California History, New York: Crowell, 1963.

John Charles Fremont:Character as Destiny, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Ruth, Kent, Landmarks of the West, Lincoln: University Press, 1963.

Sacramento Union, March 19, 1860 4-4, 5-5.

San Francisco Chronicle, "First American Alcalde in Northern California" June 4, 1911. 8-2/5 .

Stanley, George, Governors of Oregon, Salem: Binford's, 1959.

Stewart, George R., Ordeal by Hunger, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1963.

Stone, Irving, Men to Match My Mountains, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956.

The Oregon Historical Society, Biography File: "George Law Curry," # 10182.

The Oregon Historical Society, Biography File: "Genealogy of Governor Curry."

The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977.

Trenhom, Virginia Cole and Carley, Maurine, The Shoshoni: Sentinels of the Rockies, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

Unrau, William E., The Kansa Indians: A History of the Wind People, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971; rep. 1986.

Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, Mayan Explorer, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947.

The Search for the Maya, New York: Saxon, 1973.

Webb, Todd, The Gold Rush Trail and The Road to Oregon, New York: Doubleday, 1963.


* * Scholarship* *

Barzun, Jacques and Graff, Henry F., The Modern Researcher, New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., Third Edition, 1977

Adler, Mortimer J., and Van Doren, Charles, How to Read a Book, New York:Simon & Schuster, 1940

Copeland, Aaron, What to Listen for in Music, New York:McGraw Hill Book Company Inc., 1939

Dillon, J. T., "In Pursuit of the Colon: Scholarly Progress from 1880 to 1980", Education Digest, (Spring, 1982) 60-61

Turabian, Kate L., A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations, Chicago: University of Chicago., Fourth, 1973


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