Homer Aschmann, The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology (Riverside: Manessier, 1967). Originally published by University of California Press in 1959.
Johann Jakob Baegert, SJ (M. M. Brandenburg and Carl L. Baumann, translators), Observations in Lower California, 1771 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952).
Herbert Eugene Bolton, Rim of Christendom (New York: MacMillan, 1936).
James Hunter Bull, “A Journey Through Lower California 1844,” Doyce E. Nunis Jr., ed. (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1965).
Ernest Burrus, SJ, Jesuit Relations—Baja California (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1984).
Juan Cavallero Carranco, SJ (W. Michael Mathes, translator), The Pearl Hunters in the Gulf of California 1668: Summary Report of the Voyage made to California by Captain Francisco de Lucenilla (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1966).
Francisco Javier Clavigero, SJ (Sara E. Lake and A. A. Gray, translators and editors), The History of Lower California (1789; repr., Stanford University Press, 1937).
Juan Crespí (Alan K. Brown, translator), A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769–1770 (San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 2001).
Harry W. Crosby, The King’s Highway in Baja California: An Adventure into the History and Lore of a Forgotten Region (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, Copley Books, 1974).
———, Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697–1768 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994).
———, Gateway to Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769 (San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2003).
Bernal Diaz (J. M. Cohen, translator), The Conquest of New Spain (Mexico), (London: Clays, 1963). Written in 1581.
Benno Ducrue, SJ (Ernest J. Burrus, SJ, translator), Expulsion of the Jesuits from Lower California (1767–1769) (1784; repr., St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1967).
Peter Masten Dunne, SJ, Black Robes in Lower California. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968).
Helen DuShane, The Baja California Travels of Charles Russell Orcutt from 1882 to 1919 (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1971).
Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, OFM, Missions and Missionaries of California, vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. (San Francisco: James H. Barry, 1913–1914).
Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes, California Missions and Landmarks: El Camino Real (Los Angeles: Official Guide, 1915).
Maynard J. Geiger, OFM, The Life and Times of Fray Juniper Serra, O.F.M. Two volumes. (Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, 1959).
——— The Serra Trail in Picture and Story (San Francisco: James H. Barry, 1960).
Peter Gerhard and Howard Bulick, Lower California Guidebook (Glendale, CA: Arthur Clark, 1958).
William T. Hornaday, Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava (New York: Scribner, 1908).
George Wharton James, In and Out of the Old Missions of California (Boston: Little, Brown, 1905).
Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino, SJ (Ernest J. Burrus, SJ, translator), Kino’s Plan for the Development of Pimeria Alta, Arizona and Upper California: A Report to the Mexican Viceroy in 1703 (Tucson: Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, 1961).
——— (W. Michael Mathes, translator), First from the Gulf to the Pacific: The Diary of the Kino-Atondo Peninsular Expedition (1684–1685) (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1969).
Max Kurillo and Erline Tuttle, California’s El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells (San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2000).
Max Kurillo, Erline Tuttle, and David Kier, The Old Missions of Baja & Alta California 1697–1934 (El Cajon: M&E Books, 2012).
Miguel Leon-Portilla, El Camino Real y las Misiones de la Peninsula de Baja California [The Camino Real and the Missions of the Baja California Peninsula] (Mexico City: Fundación Manuel Arango, Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia, 2008).
Wenceslaus Linck, SJ (Ernest J. Burrus, SJ, translator), Diary of 1766 Expedition to Northern Baja California (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1966).
———, Reports and Letters 1762—1778 (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1967).
José Longinos Martinez (Lesley Byrd Simpson, translator), California in 1792: The Expedition of José Longinos Martinez (San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library, 1938).
W. Michael Mathes, The Land of Calafia: A Brief History of Peninsular California (1533–1848) (Tecate, CA: Corredor Historico CAREM, 2009).
Richard A. Minnich and Ernesto Vizcaino, Land of Chamise and Pines: Historical Accounts and Current Status of Northern Baja California’s Vegetation, University of California Publications in Biology, vol. 80 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (William Thomas Little, translator), The Labors of the Very Brave Knight Esplandián (Sergas de Esplandián) (1510; repr., State University of New York–Binghamton, NY, 1992).
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
Edward W. Nelson, Lower California and its Natural Resources (Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 16, 1st memoir) (1922) (Riverside: Manessier Publishing Company, 1966).
Arthur Walbridge North, Camp and Camino in Lower California (New York: Baker & Taylor, 1910).
———, The Mother of California (San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1908).
Fray Francisco Palóu, OFM, The Expedition into California of the Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra and His Companions in the Year 1769 (San Francisco: Nueva California Press, 1934).
——— (Herbert Eugene Bolton, editor), Historical Memoirs of New California, 4 vols. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966). Originally published in 1926.
Francisco María Piccolo, SJ (George P. Hammond, translator), Informe on the New Province of California 1702 (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1967).
Sergio Morales Polo, The Mission of San Javier, This Is Loreto Collection, vol. 3, The Mission of San Javier (Loreto, BCS: Editorial Londo, 1999).
Gaspar de Portolá (Donald Eugene Smith and Frederick J. Taggart, editors), “Diary of Gaspar de Portolá During the California Expedition of 1769–1770,” Publications of the Academy of Pacific Coast History 1, no. 3 (1909).
Richard F. Pourade, The Call to California: The Epic Journey of the Portolá-Serra Expedition in 1769 (San Diego: Union-Tribune, 1968).
———, Time of the Bells (San Diego: Union-Tribune, 1961).
Felix Riesenberg Jr, The Golden Road, The Story of California’s Spanish Mission Trail (New York: McGraw Hill, 1962).
Captain Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage Around the World (1712; repr., London: Cassell, 1928).
Paul Sanford, Where The Old West Never Died (San Antonio: Naylor, 1968).
Junípero Serra, OFM, Diary of Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M.: Being an Account of the Journey from Loreto to San Diego March 28 to June 30, 1769: The Documentary Preface to the History of the Missions of California (North Providence, RI: The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, 1902).
——— (Antonine Tibesar, translator), Writings of Junípero Serra, vol. 1. (Washington, DC: American Academy of Franciscan History, 1955).
William C. S. Smith, A Journey to California in 1849 (Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1984).
Frances Rand Smith and Mollie Merrick, “The Burial Place of Father Junípero Serra,” Hispania 7, no. 5 (November 1924).
Miguel Venegas (anonymous translation, 1759), Great Americana: A Natural and Civil History of California (Worcester, MA: Readex Microprint Corporation, 1965).
Edward W. Vernon, The Spanish Missions of Baja California (Santa Barbara: Viejo Press, 2002).
Vincente Vila (Robert Selden Rose, editor), “Diary of Vincente Villa: The Portolá Expedition of 1769–1770,” Publication of the Academy of Pacific Coast History 2, no. 1 (1911).
Marie T. Walsh, The Mission Bells of California (San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1934).
Walt Wheelock, Byroads of Baja (Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1971).
Francisco Zevallos (Manuel Servin, translator), The Apostolic Life of Fernando Consag Explorer of Lower California (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1968).