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Report of Hon. T. Butler King of California printed by Gideon & Co. in 1850. This report relayed the first official information about the gold r...

Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9. By E. Gould Buffum, Lieutenant F...

Geology and Industrial Resources of California by Philip T. Tyson. Published by Wm. Minifie & Co., 1851. Second edition. Expanded version of thi...

Horn's Overland Guide, From the U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California by Hosea...

Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings; Being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: with Particular Incidents of the Route, M

The Pioneer; or California Monthly Magazine, edited by F.C. Ewer. Vol. I. January to June, 1854. Published by the W.H. Brooks & Company. Contain...

The Pioneer or California Monthly Magazine, edited by F.C. Ewer. Vol. III January to June 1855. Published by Lecount and Strong, 1855. Contains articl

Scenery of the Plains, Mountains, and Mines: or A Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake: Travels in the Citi

The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction by Hinton R. Helper. Published by Henry Taylor in 1855. In this book, Helper recounts early travels in San Fr

Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold

California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants by Henry Vere Huntley. First edition published by Thomas Cautley Newby in 1856. Two volumes rebound together

California and Its Resources: A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant by Ernest Seyd. Published by Trubner and Co. in 1858. First ed

The Romance of the Age or Discovery of Gold in California by Edward E. Dunbar. Published in New York by Appleton and Company, 1867. First edition. Ori

The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall, the Discoverer of Gold in California by George Frederic Parsons. Published in Sacramento by James W. Mar

Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Years 1849-50. With an Appendix Containing Reminiscences of P

The Land of Gold. A Tale of '49. Illustrative of early pioneer life in California and founded upon fact. Dedicated to California pioneers. By Ge...

Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by Wm. G. Johnson, a Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849. Published in Pittsb

The Adventures of a Forty-Niner. An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by D

Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 by L. Dow Stephens. Actual Experiences of a Pioneer Told by Himself in His Own Way. Published in 1916. A sca...

Books of the California Gold Rush: A Centennial Selection by Carl I. Wheat. Published by the Colt Press in 1949. This is a selected bibliography of th