A Selected Reading List

Aitken, Frank W. A History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. San Francisco, 1906.

Alley, Bowen and Co. History of Marin County. San Francisco, 1880.

Armsby, Leonora Wood. Musicians Talk. New York, 1933.

Asbury, Herbert. The Barbary Coast. New York, 1933.

Atherton, Gertrude. Adventures of a Novelist. New York, 1932.

_____California, an Intimate History. New York, 1914 (rev. ed. 1927).

Baker, Joseph Eugene. Past and Present of Alameda County. 2 vols. Chicago, 1914.

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. 7 vols. San Francisco, 1884-90.

_____Popular Tribunals. San Francisco, 1890.

Barry, T. A., and B. A. Patten. Men and Memories of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1873.

Beckman, R. G. The Romance of Oakland. Oakland, 1932.

Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Anza's California Expeditions. 5 vols. Berkeley, 1930.

_____Fray Juan Crespi, Missionary Explorer of the Pacific Coast. Berkeley, 1927.

_____Outpost of Empire. New York, 1931.

Brown, John Henry. Reminiscences and Incidents of Early Days of San Francisco (1845-30). San Francisco, 1886 (later ed. 1933).

Burbank, Luther, with Wilbur Hall. The Harvest of the Years. Boston, 1927.

California Historical Society. Drake's Plate of Brass, Evidence of His Visit to California in 1579. San Francisco, 1937.

Chapman, Charles E. A History of California: The Spanish Period. New York, 1921 (rev. ed. 1928).

Chevigny, Hector. Lost Empire: the Life and Adventures of Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov. New York, 1937.

Cleland, Robert Glass. A History of California; the American Period. New York, 1922.

Cleland, Robert Glass, and Osgood Hardy. The March of Industry. Los Angeles, 1929.

Coblentz, Stanton A. Villains and Vigilantes. New York, 1936.

Cowan, Robert E. Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco. Los Angeles, 1938.

Cowan, Robert E., and Robert G. Cowan. A Bibliography of the History of California. 3 vols. San Francisco, 1933.

Crocker, Florence B. Who Made Oakland? Oakland, 1925.

Cross, Ira B. Financing an Empire. 5 vols. Chicago, 1927.

_____History of the Labor Movement in California. Berkeley, 1935.

Cummins, Ella Sterling. The Story of the Files. San Francisco, 1893.

Dana, Julian. The Man Who Built San Francisco. New York, 1936.

Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast. Boston, 1840 (later ed. 1936).

Davis, William Heath. Seventy-five Years in California. San Francisco, 1929.

Dawson, William Leon. The Birds of California. Los Angeles, 1921 (later ed. in 4 vols. 1923).

De Veer, Daisy Williamson. The Story of Rancho San Antonio. Oakland, 1924.

Dobie, Charles Caldwell. San Francisco, a Pageant. New York, 1933.

_____San Francisco's Chinatown. New York, 1936.

Eaves, Lucilla M. History of California Labor Legislation. Berkeley, 1910.

Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner. History of California. 5 vols. New York, 1915.

_____The Beginnings of San Francisco. 2 vols. New York, 1912.

Englehardt, Fr. Zephyrin. The Missions and Missionaries of California. 4 vols, and index. San Francisco, 1908-16 (2d ed. in 2 vols. 1929-30).

_____Mission Dolores. Chicago, 1924.

Fages, Pedro. Expedition to San Francisco Bay in 1770. Berkeley, 1911.

Federal Writers’ Project. California: a Guide to the Golden State. New York, 1939.

Ferrier, William Warren. Ninety Years of Education in California. 1846-1936. Berkeley, 1937.

_____Berkeley, California. Berkeley, 1933.

Font, Fr. Pedro. Font's Complete Diary. A chronicle of the foundation of San Francisco. Translated and edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton. Berkeley, 1933.

Frémont, John Charles. Memoirs of My Life. Chicago, 1887.

Genthe, Arnold. As I Remember. New York, 1936.

Glasscock, C. B. Lucky Baldwin. Indianapolis, 1933.

Halley, William. The Centennial Year Book of Alameda County, California. Oakland, 1876.

Harrison, Edward Sanford. History of Santa Cruz County. San Francisco, 1892.

Hart, Jerome. In Our Second Century. San Francisco, 1931.

Hittell, John S. A History of the City of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1878.

Hittell, Theodore H. History of California. 4 vols. San Francisco, 1885-97.

Hoover, Mildred Brooke. Historic Spots in California. Vol. III: Counties of the Coast Range. Stanford University, 1937.

Hulaniski, Frederick. History of Contra Costa County. Berkeley, 1917

Hunt, Margaret, and others. History of Solano and Napa Counties. Chicago, 1926.

Hunt, Rockwell, and W. S. Ament. Oxcart to Airplane. Chicago, 1929.

Hunt, Rockwell, and Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez. A Short History of California. New York, 1929.

Irwin, William Henry. Pictures of Old Chinatown. New York, 1908.

_____The City That Was. New York, 1906.

Issler, Anna Roller. Stevenson at Silverado. Caldwell, Idaho, 1939.

James, George Wharton. In and Out of the Old Missions of California. Boston, 1905 (rev. ed. 1927).

James, William F. History of San Jose. San Jose, 1933.

Jepson, Willis Linn. A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California. Berkeley, 1925.

_____The Trees of California. San Francisco, 1909 (2d ed. 1923).

Jordan, David Starr, ed. The California Earthquake of 1906. San Francisco, 1907.

Kroeber, Alfred L. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 78, Washington, D. C, 1925.

Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four. New York, 1938.

Lewis, Oscar, and Carroll D. Hall. Bonanza Inn. New York, 1939.

Lloyd, Benjamin E. Lights and Shades in San Francisco. San Francisco, 1876.

London, Joan. Jack London and His Times. New York, 1939.

Lyman, George D. John Marsh, Pioneer. New York, 1934.

_____Ralston's Ring. New York, 1937.

Merrit, Frank Clinton. History of Alameda, California. Chicago, 1928.

Morphy, Edward. The Port of San Francisco. Sacramento, 1923.

Murphy, Celeste C. The People of the Pueblo, or, the Story of Sonoma. Sonoma, Calif., 1935.

Nelson, Nels Christian. Shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Region. Berkeley, 1909.

Neuhaus, Eugen. The Art of Treasure Island. Berkeley, 1939.

Neville, Amelia Ransome. The Fantastic City. Boston, 1932.

Nevins, Allan. Frémont, Pathmaker of the West. New York, 1939.

Northern California Writers’ Project. Festivals in San Francisco. San Francisco, 1939.

Older, Fremont. My Own Story. San Francisco, 1919 (later ed. New York, 1926).

Palou, Fr. Francisco. Historical Memoirs of New California. 4 vols. Translated and edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton. Berkeley, 1926.

Parsons, Mary Elizabeth. The Wild Flowers of California. San Francisco, 1902 (later ed. 1914).

Pennell, Joseph. San Francisco, the City of the Golden Gate. Boston, 1913.

Phillips, Catherine C. Portsmouth Plaza. San Francisco, 1932.

Potter, Elizabeth Gray. The San Francisco Skyline. New York, 1939.

Prieto, Guillermo. San Francisco in the Seventies. San Francisco, 1938.

Richman, Irving B. California under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847. Boston, 1911.

Rider, Fremont, ed. Rider's California: a Guidebook for Travelers. New York, 1925.

Rosskam, Edwin. San Francisco, West Coast Metropolis. New York, 1939.

Rourke, Constance M. Troopers of the Gold Coast. New York, 1928.

Royce, Josiah. California from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (1856). Boston, 1886 (later ed. 1892).

Sawyer, Eugene Taylor. History of Santa Clara County. Los Angeles, 1929.

Scherer, James A. B. The Lion of the Vigilantes. Indianapolis, 1939.

Shuck, Oscar Tully. Bench and Bar in California. San Francisco, 1889.

Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet. The Annals of San Francisco. New York, 1855.

Stanger, Frank M. History of San Mateo County. San Mateo, 1938.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. London, 1883.

Stewart, George Rippey. Bret Harte, Argonaut and Exile. Boston, 1931.

Stoddard, Charles Warren. In the Footprints of the Padres. San Francisco, 1902 (rev. ed. 1912).

Taylor, Bayard. Eldorado: or Adventures in the Path of Empire. New York, 1850 (rev. ed. 1882).

Thompson, Ruth, and Chef Louis Hanges. Eating Around San Francisco. San Francisco, 1937.

Todd, Frank Morton. The Story of the Exposition (Panama-Pacific International). 5 vols. New York, 1921.

Tuomey, Honoria. History of Sonoma County. Chicago, 1926.

Walker, Franklin. San Francisco's Literary Frontier. New York, 1939.

Wallace, W. History of Napa County. Oakland, 1901.

Wells, Evelyn. Champagne Days in San Francisco. New York, 1939.

White, Stewart Edward. Old California. New York, 1937.

Williams, Mary Floyd. History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. Berkeley, 1921.

Woon, Basil. San Francisco and the Golden Empire. New York, 1935.

Wright, Benjamin C. Banking in California 1849-1910. San Francisco. 1910.

_____San Francisco's Ocean Trade, Past and Future. San Francisco, 1911.

Young, John P. San Francisco: A History of the Pacific Coast Metropolis. 2 vols. Chicago, 1912.

_____History of Journalism in California. San Francisco, 1915.