by Robert L. Santos
California State University, Stanislaus
Librarian
University Archivist
blsantos@csustan.edu
Alley-Cass Publications
Turlock, California
Copyright 1998; Revised Edition 2002
"I arrived in Sacramento with two sacks, made from sail cloth, filled with my personal effects. I carried the sacks on my back fastened with leather straps under my arms."
___The Autobiography of Charles Peters
[B2]
Alexander, J.M. "J.M. Alexander: A Gold Miner's Letter, 1852." California Historical Society Quarterly
49(December 1970): 353-358.
[B3]
Allen, Judy. "Children on the Overland Trails." Overland Journal 12(Spring 1994): 2-11.
[B4]
Amesbury, H. Clyde. "Dr. George A. Grotefend . . . " Covered Wagon (1958): 1-3. (Germany, St. Louis,
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Amesbury, H. Clyde. "The Oregon Trail in California." Covered Wagon (1961): 35-38.
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Andrews, Thomas F. "Satire and the Overland Guide: John B. Hall's Fanciful Advice to Gold Rush Emigrants."
California Historical Society Quarterly 48(June 1969): 99-111.
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Apostol, Jane. "Argonauts with a New York Accent: Ithaca to Agua Fria in 1849." Southern California Quarterly
75(Spring 1993): 15-36.
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________. "'The Fickel Goddess Evades Me': The Gold Rush Letters of a Kentucky Gentleman." Register of
the Kentucky Historical Society 79:2(1981): 99-121.
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________. "Rendezvous in Stockton: Three Yankees Go West." Pacific Historian 26(Spring 1982): 70-79.
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Bachman, Jacob Henry. "The Diary of a 'Used-up' Miner." Edited by Jeanne Skinner Van Nostrand. California
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Bailey, Henry Clay. "California '53: Journal of a California Pioneer." Sutter County Historical Society
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Baker, George H. "Records of a California Journey." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 7(December
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________. "Records of a California Residence." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 8(March 1931):
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Baresel, Karl and Dorothy Baresel. "Trails and Fords Above the Junction of the North and South Platt."
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[B17]
Barriaga, Joan. "Mary Bennett, the Black Knight's Lady." The Californians 8(September-October 1990):
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Beaman, A. Gaylord. "Pioneer Letters." Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California 21(March
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Benjamin, Theodosia. "The Audubon Party - New York to California, 1849." Pacific Historian 12(Fall 1968):
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Berry, C. (Mrs. John Van Antwerp Berry) "A Letter from the Mines." California Historical Quarterly 5(March
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Blake, Anson S. "An Early Day California Letter From Charles T. Blake." Society of California Pioneers
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Bloom, Mary Geneva, ed. "The Hazelton Letters." The Californians 12:5(1995): 6-13
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Bolling, Dwayne, ed. "Gold Rush Journey: A Letter by William C. Foster, 1850." Nebraska History 62:3(1850):
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Brady, Charles C. "From Hannibal to the Gold Fields in 1849." Pacific Historian 4(November 1960): 145-152;
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Brininstool, E.A. "The Naming of 'Death Valley'" Thrilling Experiences of the Manley Party, First Whites
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Brown, Randy. "Buried at Ash Hollow." Overland Journal 8:3(1990): 18-25.
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________. "Childs' Cutoff." Overland Journal 5(Spring 1987): 17-22.
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________. "Daniel Lantz and the Wayne County Companies of 1850." Overland Journal 9(Fall 1991): 2-13.
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________. "The Grave of Ephraim Brown." Overland Journal 7:1(1989): 25-27.
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Brown, Sharon. "What the Covered Wagon Covered." Overland Journal 4(Summer 1986): 32-39.
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Brown, Sharon. "Women on the Overland Trails - A Historical Perspective." Overland Journal 2(Winter 1984):
35-40.
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Brown, Terry. "An Emigrants' Guide for Women: 1850 Edition." American West 7(September 1970): 12-17,
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Brownlee, Robert. "Reminiscences of Robert Brownlee." Publication of the Society of California Pioneers
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Brun, Christian F. "From Mokelumne and Humbug and Calaveras County: Six Gold Rush Letters." Soundings
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Cairns, Andrew. "'I Take This Opportunity to Inform You . . . ': The Gold Rush Letters of Andrew Cairns."
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"California Gold: The Story of the California Gold-Rush Told in the Words of Anonymous Forty-Niner, With Numerous
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Campbell, Augustus and Colin D. Campbell. "Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, 1849: The Letters of Dr. Augustus
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Cann, T.H. "From the Mississippi to the Valley of the Sacramento." Overland Monthly, second series 45(June
1905): 526-528. (Memories of 1853)
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Cantelon, Philip L., ed. "The California Gold Fields in the 1850s: Letters From Ephraim Thompson, Daviess
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Capps, Michael A. "Wheels in the West: The Overland Wagon." Overland Journal 8:4(1990): 2-11.
[B48]
Carlow, William A. "Around the Horn in 1849: Early Day Letter From a California Pioneer." Grizzly Bear
46(November 1929): 3,4; (December 1929): 4, 45.
[B49]
Carlson, Iva Smith. "Dr. A.M.C. Smith and Cordelia Kellogg Smith." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:7(1984): 10-15.
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Carr, James. "The California Letters of James Carr." Quarterly of the California Historical Society 11(June
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Carter, Robert W. "'Sometimes When I Hear the Winds Sigh': Mortality on the Overland Trail." California
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Caughey, John Walton. "Southwest from Salt Lake City in 1849." Pacific Historical Review 6(June 1937):
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Chaffee, Joseph Bennett. "The Letters of Joseph Bennett Chaffee: Salmon Falls, 1850-1851." Golden Notes
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Chamberlain, James Franklin. "The Lure of Gold: The Story of the Greatest Gold Rush in the Annals of History
by the Argonauts of '49." Overland Monthly and
the Out West Magazine 81(October 1923): 8-13.
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"Charles Michael Nentzel." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 48. (From Bavaria, Nicaragua
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Cheesman, David W. "By Ox Team From Salt Lake to Los Angeles, 1850." Annual Publications of the Historical
Society of Southern California 14(1930): 270-337.
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Chever, Edward E. "Through the Straits of Magellan in 1849." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly
4(September 1927): 136-163.
[B58]
Church, Andrew S. "Memoirs of Andrew S. Church." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 3(December
1926): 153-201.
[B59]
Clark, Dennis Woodruff. "A Letter From San Francisco." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 5(December
1928): 190-199.
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Clark, J.E. "From St. Louis to San Francisco in 1850." Annual Publication of the Historical Society of
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Clarke, William John. "Journey to the El Dorado: Diary of William John Clarke, Jr." Wagon Wheels 26(Fall
1986): 4-9. (Illinois, overland, 1849, Colusa County)
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Clyman, James. "James Clyman: His Diaries and Reminiscences." California Historical Society Quarterly
6(March 1927): 58-65.
[B63]
Colby, Elbridge. "Across the Isthmus in '53." Overland Monthly, second series 64(August 1914): 126-132.
[B64]
Conlin, Joseph R. "Eating on the Rush: Organizing Meals on the Overland Trail." California History 64(Summer
1985): 218-225.
[B65]
Conmy, Peter T. "Captive Among Indians." Grizzly Bear 50(October 1932): 8. (Colorado River in 1850)
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Cordua, Theodor. "The Memoirs of Theodor Cordua: The Pioneer of New Mecklenburg in the Sacramento Valley."
Edited and Translated by Erwin G. Gudde. Quarterly of the California Historical Society 12(December 1933): 278-311.
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Coy, Owen C. "Trails of the Forty-Niners." California History Nugget 3(February- March 1930): 43-50.
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"Crossing the Plains With R.G. Burrows." Wagon Wheels 13(May 1964): 3-24. (Overland, 1848, Sacramento
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Cushing, John M. "From New York to San Francisco Via the Isthmus of Panama, Including the Voyage From Panama
to San Francisco on the Ship 'Niantic'." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 6(October 1929): 118-134.
[B70]
Dart, John Paul. "A Mississippian in the Gold Fields: The Letters of John Paul Dart, 1849-1856." Edited
by Howard Mitcham. California Historical Society Quarterly 35(September 1856): 205-231.
[B71]
Davis, Charlotte and Bernice Meamber. "Henry Levi Davis - Early Builder in Montague." Siskiyou Pioneer
5:3(1980): 33-35. (From Ohio, overland, 1952)
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Davis, Hugh. "Gold Rush Vignettes from Middlebourne: Letters of Anna E. Brown and Sibs." Manuscripts
34:2(1982): 109-120.
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Davis, Richard M. "The Walker River-Sonora Crossing." Overland Journal 6:3(1988): 10-28.
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Davis, Richard M. "Where Have All the Wagons Gone? Gone, Gone Long Ago, Or Very Nearly So." Overland
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Davis, Robert Ralph. "An Ohioan's Letter From the California Gold Fields." Ohio History 76:3(1967): 159-163.
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De Ferrari, Carlo M. "The Journal of the La Grange Company; Being the Record of a Journey from Texas to California
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Decker, P. "A Journal of 'Items' on a Trip to California Overland." Publication of the Society of California
Pioneers (1954): 13-33.
[B77a]
Dewar, Katherine. "Letter from the Gold Rush." Island Magazine 47(2000): 15-19. (John Huddard Norton
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Dietsche, Mary Lynn. "'Mon coeur est gonfle d'esperance!' : Letters of a Young Frenchman in Early San Francisco."
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Dillon, Richard H. "Tragedy at Oatman Flat: Massacre, Captivity, and Mystery." American West 18(March-April
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Dinsdale, Matthew. "Gold Rush Letter: Matthew Dinsdale to His Brother Edward Dinsdale." Pacific Historian
8(November 1964): 217-219.
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Doble, John. "A Glimpse of Life in the Gold Country: Excerpts from John Doble's Journal and Correspondence."
California Geology 47:4(1994): 104-117.
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________. "John Doble's Journal." Pacific Historian 7(August 1963): 139-140.
[B83]
Doggett, Charles David. "My Pioneer Grandfather . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 3:2(1959): 27-32. (Overland)
[B84]
Dore, Benjamin. "The Journal of Benjamin Dore: One of the Argonauts." California Historical Society Quarterly
2(July 1923): 86-139.
[B85]
Dougal, William H. "Letters of an Artist in the Gold Rush." California Historical Society Quarterly 22(September
1943): 235-252.
[B86]
Dumke, Glenn S. "Across Mexico in '49." Pacific Historical Review 18(February 1949): 33-44.
[B87]
Dustin, David. "A Letter From Sacramento, 1850." Golden Notes 3(April 1957): 3-8; (July 1957): 1-6. (To
Massachusetts)
[B88]
Dutton, Edgar W. "David Dewey Dutton - Overland Pioneer 1839." Pony Express 26(September 1959): 1-6.
[B89]
Dwinelle, John W. "The Diary of John W. Dwinelle: From New York to Panama in 1849." Society of California
Pioneers Quarterly 8(June 1931): 105-129.
[B89a]
"Dying Miner's Farewell: A Daguerrotype and Two Letters Preserve the Memories of a Gold Rush Tragedy."
American History 29(October 1994): 54-56.
[B89b]
Eales, Anne Bruner. "Paoli and Placerville: Correspondence of a Hoosier in the Gold Rush." Indiana Magazine
of History 95(1999): 14-30.
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Early, Mabel Dorn. "Biographical Narrative of the Bennett Family." Pony Express 17(September 1950): 8-9,
11, 13, 15; (November 1950): 9-10.
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Easterby, Anthony Y. "Memoirs of Captain Anthony Y. Easterby: Dictated by Himself to His Family in August
1885." Edited by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen. Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(1933): 56-86. (Stockton
to San Francisco run)
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Eaton, Edna Behrens. "Chauncey Carroll Bush . . . " Covered Wagon (1958): 24-27. (From Illinois, overland
1850)
[B93]
Eaton, Richard B. "Colonel William Magee: 1806-1892 (Pioneer - Surveyor - Mine Owner)." Covered Wagon
(1965): 33-36. (From Alabama, around Horn, 1849, Shasta County)
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Edwards, A.C. "A Gold Rush Letter from A.C. Edwards." California Historical Society Quarterly 43(September
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[B95]
Egan, Ferol. "Jornada del Muerto [Journey of Death]." American West 6:4(1969): 12-19, 61-63.
[B96]
Eggleston, William S. "Mining for Gold in California: Reminiscences of an Old Timer." Journal of the
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[B97]
Elder, Clara A. "Two Gold Rush Letters." New York History 51:1(1970): 71-76.
[B98]
Etter, Patricia A. "To California on the Southern Route - 1849." Overland Journal 13(Fall 1995): 2-13.
[B99]
________. "HO! for California on the Mexican Gold Trail." Overland Journal 11(Fall
1993): 2-15.
[B100]
Ewart, Shirley. "Cornish Miners in Grass Valley: The Letters of John Coad." Pacific Historian 25(Winter
1981): 38-45.
[B101]
Fairchild, Mahlon D. "Reminiscences of a 'Forty-Niner." California Historical Society Quarterly 13(March
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Faragher, John Mack. "Families on the Overland Trail." Pacific Historian 23(Spring 1979): 4-23.
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Farwell, Willard Brigham. "Recollections of Gold Digging." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 1(March
1924): 17-27.
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Fifield, Allen. "Wagons East Across the Sierras." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly
63(September 1961): 276-297.
[B105]
Flanders, Mary Powell. "From Wales to Manzanita Hill: Eleven Boats, a Wagon and a Mule." The Californians
1(May-June 1983): 35-40.
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Fletcher, Jack E. and K.A. Fletcher. "The Cherokee Trail." Overland Journal 13(Summer 1995): 21-33.
[B108]
Folsom, Captain. "Letter From California: September, 1848." Golden Notes 1(April 1955): 1-4. (Economics
Sacramento)
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Forrest, Earle R. "Forty-Niners From Washington County, Pennsylvania." Pony Express 12(July 1945): 5-6;
(September 1945): 6-8; (February 1946): 8-9.
[B110]
Fox, Fred K. "John Mohler Studebaker's 1853 Overland Journey from Indiana to California." Overland Journal
8:4(1990): 12-19.
[B111]
Francis, David W. "The Letters of a Missourian in the Gold Rush, 1848-1850." Bulletin of the Missouri
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[B112]
Franklin, William Riley. "Journal of William Riley Franklin to California from Missouri in 1850." Annals
of Wyoming 46:1(1974): 47-74.
[B113]
"From Colchis Back to Argos." Overland Monthly 12(April 1874): 343-350; (May 1874): 458-465; (June 1874):
546-555; 13(July 1874): 56-65; (August 1874): 146-153. (Panama Route 1850)
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Fuller, Randall. "The Diary of Randall Fuller." Overland Journal 6:4(1988): 2-34.
[B115]
Gardner, Walter. "A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush: Letters of Walter Gardner, 1851-1857." Edited by
John Walton Caughey. Pacific Historical Review 17(November 1948): 411-428.
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Gaskill, DeWitt Clinton. "A Merchant in the Gold Fields." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 2(Spring
1958): 4-13; (Summer 1958): 12-19; (Fall 1958): 7-19. (Letters, Panama, 1849)
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Gedge, J.H.P. "These Are My Recollections." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 5(December 1928):
174-189.
[B117a]
Gerstaecker, Friedrich. "Roaming Adventurer Describes Feather River Country in 1849." Butte County Historical
Society Diggin's 43:3(1999): 51.
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Gleason, James Henry. "Pioneer Journal and Letters, 1841-1856." Edited by Duncan Gleason. Quarterly of
the Historical Society of Southern California 31(March-June 1949): 9-52.
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Goddard, George Henry. "Letter From George Henry Goddard to His Brother, 1851." Pony Express Courier
4(March 1938): 4, 15; (April 1938): 13.
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Gordon, James K. "The Voyage of the Old Ship Humboldt." Publication of the Society of California Pioneers
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[B121]
Gordon, Mary McDougall, ed. "Life in the California Goldfields in 1850: The Letters of Bernard J. Reid."
Southern California Quarterly 67:1(1985): 51-69.
[B122]
________. "Overland to California in 1849: A Neglected Commercial Enterprise." Pacific Historical Review
52(February 1983): 17-36.
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________. "'This Italy and Garden Spot of All-America': A Forty-Niner's Letters From the Santa Clara Valley
in 1851." Pacific Historian 29(Spring 1985): 4-16.
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Gordon, Robert. "Journal of a Voyage from Baltimore to San Francisco." Pacific Historian 6(February 1962):
92- 110; (November 1962): 147- 159; 7(February
1963): 45-57; 7(May 1963): 79-93; (August 1963): 124-137; 7(November 1963): 190-195.
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Graydon, Charles K. "Trail of the First Wagons Over the High Sierra." Overland Journal 4(Winter 1986):
4-17.
[B126]
Griffin, John S. "Dr. John S, Griffin's Mail, 1846-53." Edited by Viola Lockhart Warren. California Historical
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Grunsky, Charles and Clotilde Grunsky. "From Europe to California: Being Extracts From the Letters of Charles
Grunsky and His Wife, Clotilde, 1844-53." Translated by C.E. Grunsky. Society of California Pioneers Quarterly
9(1933): 8-44.
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Gudde, Erwin G. "Mutiny on the Ewing." California Historical Society Quarterly 30(March 1951): 39-47.
[B129]
Guinn, James. "Sonoran Migration." Southern California Historical Society Publications 8(1909-1910).
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Hague, Harlan. "The First California Trail: The Southern Route." Overland Journal 5(Winter 1987): 41-50.
[B131]
Haine, J.J.F. "A Belgian in the Gold Rush: A Memoir by Dr. J.J.F. Haine." Edited by Jan Albert Goris.
California Historical Society Quarterly 37(December 1958): 311-346.
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Hale, Israel F. "Diary of Trip to California in 1849." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 2(June
1925): 61-130.
[B133]
Hammond, Andy. "Peter Lassen and His Trail." Overland Journal 4(Winter 1986): 33-41.
[B134]
Harlan-Smith, Mary Ann. "Recollections of a Pioneer Mother." Grizzly Bear 32(March 1923): 4, 28-29; (April
1923): 4, 30; (May 1923): 6, 42.
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Harrington, Dan. "Pioneer Reminiscences." Pony Express Courier 3(October 1936): 13.
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Hatch, James Noble. "The Covered Wagon." Grizzly Bear 53(January 1934): 5.
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Hawgood, John A. "General Sutter Writes a Letter." Pacific Historian 10(Winter 1966): 35-41.
[B138]
Hawks, James D. "The Diary of James D. Hawk." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 6(June 1929):
82-98.
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Hazelton, John Adams. "The Hazelton Letters." The Californians 1(May 1957): 1- 3, 8; (August 1957): 5-8;
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Healy, Jesse. "My Reminiscences." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(December 1932): 249-257.
[B141]
Heath, Minnie Beatrice. "Nancy Kelsey - The First Pioneer Woman to Cross the Plains." Grizzly Bear 59(February
1937): 3, 7. (1841 along with later years)
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Henderson, A.G. "My Journey to the Gold Fields: Reminiscences of an Argonaut." American West 13(May-June
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Herbert, Noblet. "Noblet Herbert to Mrs. John Augustine Washington." Edited by John A. Washington. California
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Hill, William. "The Charles Bishop Grave Discovered." Overland Journal 7:1(1989): 28-32.
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Hillyer, Edwin. "From Waupan to Sacramento in 1849: The Gold Rush Journal of Edwin Hillyer." Edited by
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Holden, Erastus Saurin. "Condemned Bar in 1849: An Excerpt from the Journal of Erastus Saurin Holden."
Quarterly of the California Historical Society 12(December 1933): 312-317.
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Hollingsworth, John McHenry. "Journal of John McHenry Hollingsworth: A Lieutenant in Stevenson's Regiment
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Hornbeck, David and Mary Tucey. "Notes and Documents: The Submergence of a People: Migration and Occupational
Structure in California, 1850." Pacific Historical Review 46(August 1977): 471-484.
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Hotchkiss, Edward. "The California Letters of Edward Hotchkiss." Quarterly of the California Historical
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Hufford, Kenneth. "Travelers on the Gila Trail." Journal of Arizona History 7:1(1966): 1-8.
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Hulbert, Eri B. "The Hulbert-Walker Letters: To California via Nicaragua in 1852." Edited by Elizabeth
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Hunt, Aurora. "Overland by Boat to California in 1849." Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern
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Hunt, Nancy A. "By Ox-Team to California." Overland Monthly, second series 67(April 1916): 317-326.
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Hunt, Rockwell D. "The Spirit of the Trail." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 41(December
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________. "To California by Ox Team." Pony Express 21(September 1954): 3-6.
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Hunt, Thomas H. "The California Trail: A Survey." Overland Journal 1(July 1983): 30-35.
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Hutcheson, Austin E. "Overland in 1852: The McGuirk Diary." Pacific Historical Review 13(December 1944):
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Hutchins, Dexter Hazen. "The Dexter Hazen Hutchins Letters." Pacific Historian 2(November 1958): 5-7;
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