The Gold Rush of California: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles



by Robert L. Santos
California State University, Stanislaus
Librarian
University Archivist
blsantos@csustan.edu

Alley-Cass Publications
Turlock, California
Copyright 1998; Revised Edition 2002

Chapter Four

PLACES: MINING CAMPS, TOWNS, CITIES, COUNTIES

"He seated himself on the bedrock and with the pan between his knees began digging with his knife the mud out of the crevices and dropping it into the pan. Soon a yellow gleam began to appear in the pan and then my hopes began to rise. Then a nugget, weighing at least two ounces, dropped with a bang upon the bottom of the pan. ‘Have we struck it?’ I asked. ‘Oui, oui,’ he said, and then I knew we had."

___The Autobiography of Charles Peters


[D1]
Albertson, Ethel. "Early Day History of Meridian." Sutter County Historical Society News Bulletin 18(October 1979): 13-49. (Meridian, Sutter County)

[D2]
Allen, Walter C. "San Francisco's First City Directory and Its Two Reprints." Publication of the Society of California Pioneers (1943): 28-49.

[D3]
"Along the Old Placer County Road Built in 1851." Pony Express 21(May 1955): 6-7.

[D4]
Altrocchi, Julia Cooley. "Paradox Town: San Francisco in 1851." California Historical Society Quarterly 28(March 1949): 30-46.

[D5]
Andrews, Alexander Robertson. "Horsetown." Covered Wagon (1964): 3-11. (Shasta County, Clear Creek Diggings)

[D6]
Armstrong, Burness LaTour and Mazie Mary Phelps Sanders. "LaTour Butte, LaTour Park and LaTour Meadows." Covered Wagon (1966): 43-45. (John Cochran LaTour, overland, 1849, Shasta County)

[D6a]
Arnold, Keith. "Yreka Trail and Gold Discoveries in Siskiyou County." Pioneer 7(Fall 1999): 43-101.

[D7]
Augsburg, Helen. "History of Alameda County and Oakland, Its Principal City." Grizzly Bear 30(April 1922): 1-2, 44-45.

[D8]
"Awful Conflagration - Sacramento in Ashes: Six Lives Known to Be Lost! November 2, 1852." Golden Notes 1(October 1954): 7-8. (From San Francisco Daily Herald, November 4, 1852)

[D9]
Ballou, R.S. "The Story of Western Shasta." Covered Wagon (1964): 12-18.

[D10]
________. "Western Shasta." Covered Wagon (1956): 6-7.

[D11]
Barry, Louise, comp. "Kansas Before 1854: A Revised Annals; Part Eighteen, 1849. Part Nineteen, 1850." Kansas Historical Quarterly 31:3(1965): 256-339.

[D12]
"Benicia's Old Capitol to Be Dedicated." Pony Express 24(February 1958): 1-6.

[D13]
Bepler, Doris. "Brief History of Merced County." Grizzly Bear 24(June 1919): 5-7.

[D14]
_______. "Early History of Sacramento." Grizzly Bear 21(September 1917): 1, 28-29, 32.

[D15]
________. "Sketch of Nevada's County's Early History Dealing Particularly With Nevada City, Grass Valley, and Truckee." Grizzly Bear 23(June 1918): 1-2, 27.

[D16]
Blumenthal, Henry. "California Societies in France, 1849-1955." Pacific Historical Review 25(August 1956): 251-260. (Gold Investment France)

[D17]
Boner, Hamilton. "Old Columbia Reborn." Pony Express 12(August 1945): 7-9, 12.

[D18]
Borthwick, J.D. "Sacramento 1851: Stage Coaching in Sacramento: 1851." Golden Notes 20(December 1974): 1-9.

[D19]
Bowie, Patricia. "The Shifting Gold Rush Scenario: California to Australia to New Zealand." The Californians 6(January-February 1988): 12-30.

[D20]
Bowles, Laura Carman. "Nord - the District and the Town." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 10(Summer 1966): 3-12.

[D21]
Brainard, Sara Louise. "River of the Holy Sacrament." Grizzly Bear 34(May 1924): 8-10, 14.

[D22]
"Brief History of San Francisco Lands." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 1(June 1924): 5-14.

[D23]
Brienes, Marvin. "Sacramento Defies the Rivers, 1850-1878." California History 58(Spring 1979): 2-19.

[D24]
Briggs, Carl. "Goodbye God: We're Going to Bodie!" The Californians 4(July-August 1986): 82-95.

[D25]
Brooks, Donna Kohn. "Berryville - Sisson - Mount Shasta." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:4(1981): 7-14.

[D26]
Broussard, C.J. "Plumas County's First Grist Mill." Pony Express 19(November 1952): 8-12.

[D27]
Brown, David R. "The History of Bidwell Bar, 1848-1856." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 14(Spring 1970): 20-24; (Summer 1970): 20-24; (Fall 1970): 14-24; 15(Summer 1971): 30-36.

[D28]
Burchfield, Chris. "Demolishing Two Mariposa Legends." The Californians 4(November-December 1986): 42-43.

[D29]
Bush, C.C. "Name of River Should Be McLeod . . . " Covered Wagon (1958): 28-30. (Sacramento River branch)

[D30]
"Busy Mining Towns of Early Sierra County." Pony Express 17(February 1951): 6.

[D31]
Byington, Lewis F. "Early Days in San Francisco." Grizzly Bear 51(February 1933): 5, 8.

[D32]
"California State Capitols After the Spanish Days." Pony Express 15(October 1948): 1. (Pictures only)

[D33]
"California's Two Largest Cities As They Appeared in the Gold Rush Days." Pony Express Courier 3(June 1936): 1. (Photos)

[D33a]
Chalmers, Claudine. "Frenchtown in Gold Rush San Francisco." Journal of the San Francisco Historical Society 10(Fall 2001).

[D34]
Chamberlain, Newell D. "It Happened in Mariposa." Pony Express Courier 4(August 1937): 9.

[D35]
________. "Mariposa Days." Pony Express Courier 3(March 1937): 7.

[D36]
Cherry, Donald L. "Boston Looks at E. Dorado." Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine 91(March 1933): 43-44.

[D37]
Chever, Edward E. "The First Settlement of Yuba City." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(December 1932): 226-230.

[D38]
"Colusa's Historic Riverside Hotel." Wagon Wheels 42(Fall 1992): 4-7. (Built 1851)

[D39]
Conmy, Peter T. "Benicia, Intended Metropolis." Grizzly Bear 72(February 1944): 3, 17.

[D40]
________. "Colonel Baker's Field and Buena Vista County." Grizzly Bear 65(May 1940): 4.

[D41]
________. "El Dorado County." Grizzly Bear 67(May 1941): 4.

[D42]
________. "Folsom's Claim and the Leidesdorf Succession." Grizzly Bear 92(January 1954): 4. (San Francisco)

[D43]
________. "Klamath: California's Lost County." Grizzly Bear 70(February 1943): 2.

[D44]
________. "Oakland: Queen of the Contra Costa." Grizzly Bear 68(September 1941): 3, 5.

[D45]
________. "Oakland: Site of Early Day Duel." Grizzly Bear 69(June 1942): 4. (Broderick 1852)

[D46]
________. "Pa-Utah, a California County Situated in Nevada State." Grizzly Bear 66(November 1940): 4.

[D47]
________. "Sacramento and Sutter's Fort." Grizzly Bear 63(February 1939): 3.

[D48]
Connolly, Mark. "My House Used to Be Your Home: The Changing Household Unit in Nineteenth-Century Santa Barbara, California, 1850-1870." Southern California Quarterly 73(Spring 1991): 1-12.

[D49]
Coy, Owen C. "The Queen of the Angels." Grizzly Bear 48(September 1931): 1-4, 8. (Los Angeles)

[D50]
Crawford, C.M. "Early Recollections of Lake County." Publication of the Society of California Pioneers (1951): 11-24.

[D51]
Cutten, C.P. "The Humboldt Bay Region." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(March 1932): 7-42.

[D52]
Dana, Julian. "The Great Fires of San Francisco." Pony Express Courier 2(July 1935): 1, 12.

[D53]
________. "When We Were Young." Pony Express Courier 3(November 1936): 3. (San Francisco)

[D53a]
Davis, Maurice. "California Gold and the Greenhorn." Pioneer 7(Fall 1998): 1-8. (Siskiyou County)

[D54]
De Ferrari, Carlo M. "Sonora's Early Streets." Chispa 11(April-June 1972): 381-396.

[D55]
"Death Valley in '49." Land of Sunshine 6(February 1897): 116.

[D56]
Delay, Peter J. "Historic Plumas County Site Marked." Grizzly Bear 43(August 1928): 6.

[D57]
Delgado, James P. "The Humblest Cottage Can in a Short Time Afford . . . Pure and Sparkling Water: Early Efforts to Solve Gold Rush San Francisco's Water Shortage." Pacific Historian 26(Fall 1982): 26-39.

[D58]
Derby, George H. "Squibob's Visit to Benicia in 1850." Pacific Historian 10(Winter 1966): 42-48.

[D59]
Derrick, Victory A. "A Retrospect of Oakland." Grizzly Bear 46(June 1930): 18-19.

[D60]
Deward, Robert J. "Grass Valley, Land of the Pioneer." Grizzly Bear 51(May 1933): 5-9.

[D61]
Dexter, John L. "Mariposa on the Mother Lode." Pony Express Courier 4(February 1938): 3-4, 14.

[D62]
Douglass, Belle Rolf. "Nevada County, California." Pony Express Courier 2(October 1935): 1, 4-5.

[D63]
Dunbar, Fay H. "Rough and Ready." Nevada County Historical Society 30(October 1976): 1-8. (Mining Camp)

[D64]
Dunstone, William. "A History of Wyandotte in Butte County, California." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 15(Summer 1971): 3-23.

[D65]
Dyer, Richard L. "Early Columbia: Prospectors and Presbyterians." Chispa 33(July-September 1993): 1121-1125.

[D66]
________. "Historic Landmark: Columbia State Historical Park." Pacific Historian 25(Winter 1981): 46-53.

[D67]
________. "Historical Landmark: Columbia: Gem of the Southern Mines." Pacific Historian 25(Spring 1981): 36-45.

[D68]
"Early Day Newspapers of Nevada County." Nevada County Historical Society 13(August 1959): 1-6.

[D69]
"Early Mails in Monterey County." Noticias del Puerto de Monterey 14(September 1968): 49-55.

[D70]
"Early Map of Sacramento and Upper San Joaquin Valley Including the Gold Region." Pony Express 15(May 1949): 7-10.

[D71]
Eaton, Richard B. "Town of Shasta." Covered Wagon (1977): 26-32.

[D72]
Eastman, Barbara. "A New Look at Early Columbia." Chispa 11(July-September 1971): 357-361.

[D73]
________. "The Streets of Columbia." The Quarterly of the Tuolumne County Historical Society 6(October-December 1966): 177-181.

[D73a]
Eifler, Mark A. "Taming the Wilderness Within: Order and Opportunity in Gold Rush Sacramento, 1849-1850." California History 79:4(2000): 192-207.

[D74]
"The (Eighteen-Fifty) 1850 Census in Monterey." Noticias del Puerto de Monterey 4(September 1960): 1-4.

[D75]
Engle, Irvin A. "Coloma." Pacific Historian 16(Fall 1972): 12-17.

[D76]
Engle, Irvin A. "Volcano." Pacific Historian 16(Winter 1972): 29-35.

[D77]
Fairchild, Frances. "Placerville, Past and Present." Pony Express Courier 1(January 1935): 10-11, 14.

[D77a]
Ferguson, Charles D. "Panning for Gold in Pioneer Butte." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 42:4(1998): 71.

[D78]
"First Ascent of Mount Shasta." Siskiyou County Historical Society Yearbook 1(1946): 11. (August 14, 1854)

[D79]
Floberg, E. "Smith's Flat Chronicle." Pony Express Courier 7(November 1940): 5.(El Dorado County)

[D80]
Flynn, Thomas E. "San Francisco's Evolution." Overland Monthly, second series 76(December 1920): 55-57.

[D81]
(Forty-Nine) "'49 Real Estate Boom in San Francisco." Pony Express Courier 6(July 1939): 13.

[D82]
Foster, Lee. "Old Sacramento: Most Ambitious Historic Restoration in the West."American West 13(May-June 1976): 20-27.

[D83]
Foster, Lois. "Early Theatricals in Placerville." Pony Express Courier 3(September 1936): 7.

[D84]
Frame, Walter C. "Fire, Floods & Hoboken." Golden Notes 13(April 1967): 1-11. (Sacramento, 1850-1852)

[D85]
Francis, Lura. "The Historic Delta." Pacific Historian 23(Spring 1979): 45-57.

[D86]
Freeman, Leslis. "The Lost City of Calaveras." Pony Express 24(December 1957): 7-8.

[D87]
Fyfield, Lida. "Yocumville in the Early Days." Siskiyou Pioneer 3:5(1962): 62-63.

[D88]
Garner, Kenneth. "Blocks Burned By Fire of 1852." Golden Notes 18(March 1972): 1-10. (Sacramento)

[D89]
Garr, Daniel J. "Los Angeles and the Challenge of Growth, 1836-1849." Southern California Quarterly 61(Summer 1979): 147-158.

[D90]
Garrett, Lula May. "San Francisco in 1851 As Described by Eyewitnesses." California Historical Society Quarterly 22(September 1943): 253-280.

[D91]
Genini, Ronald. "The Fraser-Cariboo Gold Rushes: Comparisons and Contrasts with the California Gold Rush." Journal of the West 11(July 1972): 470-488.

[D92]
George, Nellie M. "The Origin of Sawyers Bar: In the Beginning 'Bestville'." Siskiyou Pioneer 1(August 1948): 4-6.

[D93]
Giffen, Helen S. "Fort Miller - A Memory of the San Joaquin." Journal of the West 2(April 1963): 205-212.

[D94]
________. "Fort Miller and Millerton: Memories of the Southern Mines." Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California 21(March 1939): 5-16.

[D95]
Giles, Rosena A. "The Sacramento River." Covered Wagon (1956): 27, 32.

[D96]
Glasscock, C.B. "Goodbye, God; I'm Going to Bodie." Pony Express Courier 4(November 1937): 1, 6, 10, 14; (December 1937): 9-10.

[D97]
"Gold on Bear River." Grizzly Bear 76(January 1946): 6-7. (Bidwell Gold 1844)

[D97a]
"Gold Rush Bonanza." Archaeology 41(May-June 1988): 17. (Excavations of general store site in San Francisco)

[D97b]
"Gold Rush Cache." Archaeology 43(September-October 1990): 15. (Archaeological findings in San Francisco)

[D98]
"Gold Rush Life at Jamestown." Chispa 15(October-December 1975): 515.

[D99]
Graves, W. Frank. "History of Hilt, California . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 4:8(1975): 1-16.

[D100]
Green, Laura J. "The Old Fort . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 1:3(1949): 29-30. (Fort Jones)

[D101]
Greer, Richard A. "California Gold - Some Reports to Hawaii." Hawaiian Journal of History 4(1970): 153-173.

[D102]
Guinn, J. M. "The Gold Placers of Los Angeles." Annual Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California 8(1090-1911): 228-233.

[D103]
Hafstrom, Ivan. "Columbia: A Gold Rush Town Lives On." Westways 75:7(1983): 30-33.

[D104]
Hall, James Disque. "Halleck's Majestic Folly." Pony Express Courier 6(January 1940): 3-4, 6-7, 16. (Henry Wagner Walleck, San Francisco buildings)

[D104a]
Hammers, Maryann. "Rip-roarin' Bodie, Relic of the Gold Rush." American West 28(Fall 1990): 32-35.

[D105]
"Hangtown in the Days of John Studebaker, the Blacksmith." Pony Express Courier 8(August 1941): 1-2, 4.

[D106]
"Hangtown Oak Destroyed in 1853." Pony Express Courier 1(August 1934): 14.

[D107]
Harriman, Frank G. "Poverty Hill and Jamestown's Early Days." Pony Express 31(August 1964): 9-11; (November 1964): 8-10.

[D108]
Heig, Adair. "Yankees & Petaluma's Crucial Decade of Development." The Californians 1(January-February 1983): 18-26.

[D109]
Helfrich, Devere. "Trail, Road and Transportation History of Butte Valley . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 2:9(1957): 1-7.

[D110]
Helmich, Stephen G. "Sacramento's 1854 City Hall and Water Works." Golden Notes 31(Winter 1985): 1-32.

[D111]
Hickerson, Mark. "Everything is Up to Date in Contra Costa." The Californians 8(May-June 1990): 26-38.

[D112]
Hilt, Wilmer. "Origin and Story of Hilt . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 1:5(1951): 15-19.

[D113]
________. "A Partial History of Old Mining Town of Henley . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 2(Fall 1953): 30-32.

[D114]
Hoeper, George. "San Antone Camp: Rich in Legend and Gold." Las Calaveras 44(April 1996): 31-34.

[D115]
Holden, E.D. "Early History of Stockton, San Joaquin County." Pony Express 12(November 1945): 5-6, 14.

[D116]
Holden, Erastus Saurin. "Journey to a Condemned Bar in 1849." Pony Express 15(March 1949): 3-5. (Placerville)

[D117]
Holladay, Parsons. "'Dear Old Shaw's Flat'."Chispa 30(October-December 1990): 1017-1021.

[D118]
Hooper, Frank W. "Early Struggles for County Seats." Pony Express Courier 8(November 1941): 16.

[D119]
Hopkins, Mark. "Sacramento 1853." Golden Notes 1(June 1954): 1-2.

[D120]
Howes, Edward H. "Smith's Gardens: Sacramento's Showplace of a Century Ago." Golden Notes 34(Summer 1988): 26-40. (A.P. Smith, horticulturalist)

[D121]
Hudson, Roy F. "From Poker Flat to Sandy Bar." Pacific Historian 6(August 1962): 129-137.

[D122]
________. "Roaring Camp Revisited." Pacific Historian 5(May 1961): 69-76.

[D123]
Hunt, Rockwell D. "Angel's Camp: In the Heart of the Mother Lode." Grizzly Bear 77(October 1946): 8, 23.

[D124]
________. "Jackson . . . County Seat of Amador." Grizzly Bear 78(January 1947): 4-5, 15.

[D125]
________. "San Andreas of Calaveras County." Grizzly Bear 77(November 1946): 6, 9-10.

[D126]
Hunter, John K. "Brief History of the Infant Days of Yankee Hill." Chispa 32(October-December 1992): 1086-1089.

[D127]
"It Was Tough At Scott Bar in the 1850s." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 108.

[D128]
Jackson, Joseph Henry. "Historic Columbia of Gold Rush Days." Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine 93(March 1935): 15, 17.

[D129]
Jackson, Samuel C. "Butteville/Edgewood." Siskiyou Pioneer 6:4(1991): 20-25.

[D130]
Jasper, James A. "Vallecito, Victim of Time and Vandals, Keeps Lonely Watch Over Memories of Historic Past." Pony Express Courier 8(March 1942): 6, 13.

[D131]
Johnson, Kenneth. "The Quest for Layton." Pacific Historian 16(Fall 1962): 60-63. (Vigilantes - Sonora)

[D132]
Johnson, Robert L. "Mexican Land Grants of Sycamore Area." Wagon Wheels 42(Spring 1992): 4-8. (Colusa County)

[D133]
Joy, Emmett P. "Calaveras County." Grizzly Bear 82(February 1949): 4; (March 1949): 4.

[D134]
________. "Capitol for a Day." Grizzly Bear 75(August 1945): 4, 15. (Columbia)

[D135]
________. "Ebbett's Pass." Grizzly Bear 88(April 1952): 4.

[D136]
________. "Ferrying on the Stanislaus River in the Eighteen Fifties." Grizzly Bear 87(December 1951): 4.

[D137]
________. "Historic Butte County." Grizzly Bear 84(May 1950): 5.

[D138]
________. "Mother Lode Ghost Towns." Grizzly Bear 74(February 1945): 3.

[D139]
________. "Mother Lode Trek." Grizzly Bear 81(October 1948): 6-7; (May 1949): 4, 14; 83(October 1949): 4, 14.

[D140]
________. "Sutter Creek's Founding." Grizzly Bear 77(December 1946): 7.

[D141]
________. "Telegraph Hill . . . Used As a Signal Station During Gold Rush Days." Grizzly Bear 79(November 1947): 4, 18. (San Francisco)

[D142]
_______. "The Upper Pit River." Grizzly Bear 78(January 1947): 8, 12. (Shasta, Modoc, Lassen Counties)

D143]
Keller, John E. "The Saga of Round Valley: 'Last of the West.'" The Californians 1(March-April 1983): 6-18. (Mendocino County)

[D144]
Kelly, William. "Sacramento 1850." Golden Notes 1(October 1954): 1-2.

[D145]
Kent, Genevieve. "Early Churches of Grass Valley Area." Nevada County Historical Society 9(March 1955): 1-4.

[D146]
Kimble, Rose and Jane Voiles. "Newtown: Ghost Town of El Dorado County." Pony Express Courier 8(November 1941): 3, 12-13.

[D147]
Kirkby, Dianne. "Gold and the Growth of a Metropolis: A Comparative Study of San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia." Journal of the West 17(January 1978): 3-15.

[D148]
Kneiss, Gilber H. "The First Rail in San Francisco." Pony Express Courier 4(January 1938): 15-16.

[D149]
Knight, Dorse P. "Great River of the Great Valley." California History Nugget 7(February 1940): 144-150. (Sacramento River)

[D150]
Knight, Maria. "Early Days in San Francisco." Overland Monthly, second series 30(September 1897): 253-259; (October 1897): 313-322.

[D151]
Krythe, Maymie R. "Daily Life in Early Los Angeles." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 36(March 1954): 28-39; (September 1954): 225-237.

[D152]
________. "First Hotel of Old Los Angeles: The Romantic Bella Union." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 33(March 1951): 37-59.

[D153]
Lachman, Jill A. "Golden Promises, Abandoned Dreams: A Brief History and Portfolio of Photographs of Bodie, California." California History 73(Winter 1994-95): 308-321.

[D153a]
Lague, Jim. "Early Settlements of Southern Butte County." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 44:1(2000): 5.

[D154]
Laney, Anita. "Marysville Methodist Episcopal Church: The Critical Years - 1850-1864." Sutter County Historical Society News Bulletin 13(October 1974): 2-27. (Marysville, Sutter County)

[D155]
"Landmarks of the Southern Mines Counties." Pony Express 16(July 1949): 4-11.

[D156]
Lang, Margaret Hanna. "Early Justice in Sonora." Pacific Historian 3(February 1959): 3-4, 8; (May 1959): 35-37; (August 1959): 59-61; (November 1959): 0-96.

[D157]
Lar, Har. "Saga of Holcomb Valley." Grizzly Bear 81(August 1948): 6, 16. (Los Angeles, Gold, 1942)

[D157a]
Lau, Stan. "Gold Discovery in California." Gum Saan Journal 2(July 1978): 8. (Los Angeles gold discovery)

[D157b]
________. "Pages from the West." Gum Saan Journal 2(July 1978): 9 (Los Angeles gold discovery)

[D158]
Lehr, Ernest. "John A. Sutter, Sr., 1839: He Called It 'Sutterville'." Golden Notes 30(Spring 1984): 1-18. (Sacramento)

[D159]
Lee, B. Virginia. "Californianization." Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine 83(July 1925): 268-269, 281. (Preservation of Yosemite)

[D160]
Lee, Clinton. "Graniteville." Nevada County Historical Society 26(April 1972): 1-8.

[D160a]
Lenhoff, Jim. "Organization of Butte County 150 Years Ago Was Fraught With Confusion and Pranks." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 44:1(2000): 16.

[D160b]
________. "Settled in the Fall of 1849, Oroville Was Named by a Pioneer of Varied Interests." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 43:4(1999): 75. (James Monroe Burt)

[D161]
________. "The Wickest Town in California . . . " Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 1(March 1957): 14-18. (Oroville)

[D162]
Leuteneker, Sibyl L. "Nevada County Homes With A History." Nevada County Historical Society 20(June 1966): 1-3.

[D163]
Lillie, Emma Witte. "A Visit to the Gold Mining Counties of California." Grizzly Bear 6(April 1910): 17, 19.

[D164]
Limbaugh, Ronald H. "The Chinese of Knight's Ferry, 1850-1920: A Preliminary Study." California History 72(Summer 1993): 106-128.

[D165]
Lingenfelter, Keith. "Historic Cobblestone House of Tehama County." Wagon Wheels 27(September 1977): 14-16. (Built 1852)

[D166]
Livingston, Robert D. "Illuminating Sacramento." Golden Notes 27(Winter 1981): 1-14.

[D167]
Locke, Dean Jewett. "Episode 3: The Events at Bachelor's Hall." The Californians 5(May-June 1987): 54-55, 66. (Mokelumne)

[D168]
Lockery, Fred. "Scott's Bar in 1855." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 36-38.

[D169]
Lockwood, Charles. "Tourists in Gold Rush San Francisco." California History 59(Winter 1980-81): 314-333.

[D170]
________. "Weaverville, Its Chinese Battles, Etc." Pony Express 17(April 1951): 7-8, 12.

[D171]
Lorch, Fred W. "Iowa and the California Gold Rush of 1849." Iowa Journal of History and Politics 30(1932): 307-376.

[D172]
Luckingham, Bradford. "Agents of Culture in the Urban West: Merchants and Mercantile Libraries in Mid-Nineteenth Century St. Louis and San Francisco." Journal of the West 17(April 1978): 28-35.

[D173]
________. "Benevolence in Emergent San Francisco: A Note on Immigrant Life in the Urban Far West." Southern California Quarterly 55(Winter 1973): 431-443.

[D174]
________. "Immigrant Life in Emergent San Francisco." Journal of the West 12(October 1973): 600-617.

[D175]
________. "Religion in Early San Francisco." Pacific Historian 17(Winter 1973): 56-74.

[D176]
Ludington, Marion Jarvis. "The Sage Brush War." Covered Wagon (1960): 31-39.(Isaac Roop family, Old Dominion fire, Colusa County,1852)

[D177]
Luecke, Mary, comp. "Siskiyou County Place Names." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:5(1982): 1- 93.

[D178]
McBride, Rebecca. "Coloma: Where the Gold Rush Began." Pacific Historian 20(Fall 1976): 238-251.

[D179]
McGinty, Brian. "Could One of These Have Been 'The City'?: In Its Early Days, San Francisco Had Some Lively Rivals." California History 64(Spring 1985): 132-141.

[D180]
McGloin, John Bernard. "Father Flavian Fontaine and a College of Sorrows: A Little Known Page from San Francisco's Past." Pacific Historian 17(Winter 1973): 1- 12.

[D181]
McGowan, Joseph A. "California's Capitol, 1849-54." Golden Notes 14(April 1968): 1-12.

[D182]
________. "Sacramento 1851." Golden Notes 20(December 1974): 1-15.

[D183]
McGrew, William K. "The Rats of Sacramento." Overland Monthly, second series 36(September 1900): 235-240. (Story)

[D184]
McKeon, Thomas J. "Oakland and Alameda County." Grizzly Bear 58(September 1936): 3.

[D185]
McKevitt, Jerry. "'Gold Lake' Myth Brought Civilization to Plumas County." Journal of the West 3(October 1964): 489-500.

[D186]
McKim, Hazel, and Ann H. Hocking. "Fort Reading." Covered Wagon (1988): 49-58. (Anderson, Shasta County, built 1852)

[D187]
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[D188]
Mehlhaff, Carole. "Harmony Grove: A Little Epic of America." Pacific Historian 10(Spring 1966): 28-33. (Lockeford)

[D189]
Miller, Thomas. "Early History of Churches in Butte County - 19th Century." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 17(1973): 3-13.

[D190]
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[D191]
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[D193]
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[D194]
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[D195]
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[D197]
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[D199]
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[D200]
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[D201]
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[D202]
Nesbitt, Delores. "Scott's Bar Town." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 1-2.

[D203]
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[D204]
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[D205]
Newport, Ruth Ann. "Sonora's Ten Great Fires." Pony Express 22(December 1955): 10-15.

[D206]
"Niantic Hotel (On Sansome St. Beach in Days of '49)." Pony Express 18(February 1952): 6. (San Francisco - from ship of same name)

[D207]
Nicolini, Dolores Yescas, Richard Yescas, and Roberta M. McDow. "Chinese Camp." Pacific Historian 16(Summer 1962): 47-64.

[D208]
Noonan, H.N. "Trinity County - A Brief History." Grizzly Bear 34(January 1924): 8.

[D209]
O'Day, Edward F. "Some Poets of San Francisco." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(1932): 45-52.

[D210]
O'Farrell, Jasper. "The Jasper O'Farrell Correspondence: Nine Documents Pertaining to the Surveys of San Francisco and Sonoma." Society of California Pioneers
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[D211]
"Old Columbia's Early Days." Pony Express 34(June 1968): 3-5.

[D212]
"Old Gross Hotel in Tuttletown." Pony Express 23(May 1957): 6.

[D213]
"Old Hangtown: How Placerville Got Its Name 'Hangtown'." Pony Express Courier 1(June 1934): 1.

[D214]
"Old Rough and Ready Once Defended Itself Against the Union." Pony Express 24(April 1958): 9.

[D215]
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[D216]
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[D217]
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[D218]
"Orange County's Only Forty-Niner." Pony Express Courier 1(January 1935): 25.

[D218a]
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[D219]
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[D220]
Paine, Lauran. "Fort Jones, 1852-1858 . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 3:3(1960): 1-45.

[D221]
Park, Roberta J. "San Franciscans at Work and at Play, 1846-1869." Journal of the West 22(January 1983): 44-51.

[D222]
Parker, Joan. "Tales of Wells Fargo in Sacramento." Golden Notes 9(April 1963): 1-12.

[D222a]
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[D223]
Paul, Rodman William. "After the Gold Rush: San Francisco and Portland." Pacific Historical Review 51(February 1982): 1-21.

[D224]
Pence, Ellsworth. "French Place Names in California." Pacific Historian 31(Spring 1987): 59-72.

[D225]
Peterson, H.C. "Amador County: The Story of the County of Golden Enchantment." Pony Express Courier 1(May 1935): 6-7, 10-11.

[D226]
________. "Calaveras County." Pony Express Courier 2(August 1935): 8, 10, 12.

[D227]
Peterson, Richard H. "The Failure to Reclaim: California State Swamp Land Policy and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1866." Southern California Quarterly 56(Spring 1974): 45-60.

[D228]
Perkins, Anthony B. "Mining Camps of Soledad." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 40(June 1958): 149-173; (September 1958): 285-303; (December 1958): 373-392.

[D228a)
Phelps, Robert. "'All Hands Have Gone Downtown': Urban Places in Gold Rush California." California History 79:2(2000): 113-140.

[D229]
"Pictorial History of Yreka . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 4:9(1976): 1-16.

[D230]
"Placer County's Old Road From Auburn to Lake Tahoe Built in 1851-54." Pony Express 23(July 1956): 9.

[D231]
"Placer County's Original Forest Hill in the 1850s." Pony Express 24(July 1957): 5.

[D232]
"Portsmouth Square Opens July First." Pony Express 16(July 1949): 12. (San Francisco)

[D233]
Potter, Elizabeth Gray. "Columbia - 'Gem of the Southern Mines.'" California Historical Society Quarterly 24(September 1945): 267-270.

[D234]
"Public Notice: All Citizens of Hornitos Are Respectively Invited to Attend the Hanging of Cherokee Bill. Horsethief." Pony Express 23(November 1956): 1. (From Hornitos Times)

[D235]
Pyeatt, Ralph. "The Story of Murphys." Pacific Historian 19(Fall 1975): 230-240.

[D236]
"Quaint Old Hornitos." Pony Express Courier 1(September 1934): 15.

[D237]
Ramey, Earl. "The Beginnings of Marysville." California Historical Society Quarterly 14(September 1935): 194-229; (December 1935): 375-409.

[D238]
"Red Bluff: Where 'Whoa Navigation' Took Over." Wagon Wheels 35(September 1975): 16-17.

[D239]
Remsburg, George J. "Frontier Nicknames." Pony Express Courier 2(September 1935): 12-13; (October 1935): 12-13; (November 1935): 4-5, 16.

[D240]
Remsburg, George J. "Platte County, Missouri and Its Contribution to the California Gold Rush." Pony Express Courier 1(October 1934): 8.

[D241]
Rogers, Andy. "The Town That Won't Ghost . . . Great Republic of Rough and Ready." Nevada County Historical Society 8(February 1954): 1-4.

[D241a]
Rohrbough, Malcolm. "No Boy's Play: Migration and Settlement in Early Gold Rush California." California History 79:2(2000): 25-43.

[D242]
Rolfe, Frank. "Early Gold Mining Days in San Gabriel Canyon." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 35(June 1953): 119-123.

[D243]
Rollins, Lloyd LaPage. "Charles Meryon and His 'Vue de San Francisco.'" Society of California Pioneers 9(June 1932): 97-107.

[D244]
Ross, Albert F. "Whiskeytown." Covered Wagon (1982): 36-56. (Shasta County)

[D245]
Russell, Warren T. "El Dorado County Pioneers Had 'Victory Garden' in '49." Pony Express Courier 8(April 1942): 5-6.

[D246]
Ryan, John P. "Sonora Trail and Sonora Pass of 1853." Pony Express 23 (November 1956): 7-9.

[D247]
"San Francisco, 1850." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 2(December 1925): 191-232.

[D248]
"San Francisco's First Post Office - 1849." Pony Express Courier 6(October 1939): 1. (Picture only)

[D249]
Saunders, Dolores. "Sacramento's Prison Ship, 1850-1859: La Grange." Golden Notes 20(October 1974): 1-12.

[D250]
"Scott Bar." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 2-3.

[D251]
"Scraps of Modoc History." Overland Monthly 11(July 1873): 21-25.

[D252]
Senkewicz, Robert M. "Religion and Non-Partisan Politics in Gold Rush San Francisco." Southern California Quarterly 61(Winter 1979): 351-378.

[D253]
Shaw, George S. "Reading: Head of Navigation?" Covered Wagon (1964): 19-22. (Sacramento River)

[D254]
Shaw, William L. "Our Pioneer Churches." Golden Notes 11(January 1964): 1-40. (Sacramento churches)

[D255]
Shurtleff, Benjamin. "Shasta . . . " Covered Wagon (1957): 5-12.

[D256]
Simpson, Alice Fisher. "Sacramento's Historic Buildings." Golden Notes 1(October 1954): 2-6.

[D257]
"Site of California's First Protestant Church Marked." Grizzly Bear 51(January 1933): 2, 19. (Benicia in 1849)

[D258]
"Sites - A Town of Spirit." Wagon Wheels 47(Fall 1987): 4-11. (John Sites, overland, 1850, Colusa County)

[D259]
Skyhawk, W.F. "Highlights of Lassen County and Susanville." Pony Express Courier 8(July 1941): 3.

[D260]
Slyter, Robert I. and Grace Slyter. "Washington, Nevada County: A Condensed History." Nevada County Historical Society 25(October 1971): 1-4.

[D261]
Smith, Grant H. "Bodie, the Last of the Old-Time Mining Camps." California Historical Society Quarterly 4(March 1925): 64-90.

[D262]
Splitter, Henry Winfred. "Education in Los Angeles, 1850-1900." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 33(June 1951): 101-118.

[D263]
________. "Los Angeles as Described by Contemporaries, 1850-90. Chapter 1: 1850's and 1860's." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 37(March 1955): 125-138.

[D264]
________. "Los Angeles in the 1850s As Told By Early Newspapers." Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California 31(March-June 1949): 114-118.

[D265]
________. "Newspapers of Los Angeles: The First Fifty Years, 1851-1900." Journal of the West 2(October 1963): 435-458.

[D266]
Sprague, Roderick and Michael J. Rodeffer. "The Bloody Point Archaeological Investigation." Overland Journal 7:3(1989): 26-28. (Tule Lake, CA)

[D267]
Stanley, Reva Holdaway. "The First Utah Coins Minted from California Gold." California Historical Society Quarterly 15(September 1936): 244-246.

[D268]
Stevenson, Mary Jane Miller. "Life at the Silverthorne Ferry." Covered Wagon (1977): 21-30. (Dr. George William Silverthorne, Pit River)

[D269]
Stewart, John D. "Chico's City Plaza." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 4(Fall 1960): 19-23.

[D270]
"The Stories Behind California's Place Names." California History Nugget 1(May 1924): 79-87.

[D271]
"Story of an Unfortunate City." Overland Monthly 1(August 1968): 140-145. (Klamath City)

[D271a]
Street, Franklin. "Feather River Described in 1850 Travel Guide." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 44:1(2000): 3.

[D272]
Sturgeon, Jack D. "Cherokee Flat: Chapter 1, The Original Mining Settlement and the Early Years (1852-1865)." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 0(Winter
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[D273]
Sullivan, Esther R. "Early History of Marysville." Grizzly Bear 50(October 1932): 6.

[D274]
Sully, Langdon. "Love and Tragedy in Old Monterey." American West 11(July 1974): 42-47. (Soldier letters to sister in 1849)

[D275]
Sumner, Maurice Hancock. "Stockton - A Brief History." Grizzly Bear 32(June 1923): 4-8.

[D276]
"Sutter's Fort in California History." California History Nugget 7(October 1939): 22-26.

[D277]
Taylor, Ross F. " Queen of the Yuba - Downieville." Grizzly Bear 51(May 1933): 30-31.

[D278]
Thompson, John. "How the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Was Settled." Pacific Historian 3(August 1959): 49-58.

[D279]
Thompson, Kenneth. "Historic Flooding in the Sacramento Valley." Pacific Historical Review 29(November 1960): 349-360.

[D280]
________ and Richard A. Eigenheer. "The Agricultural Promise of the Sacramento Valley: Some Early Views." Journal of the West 18(October 1979): 33-41.

[D281]
Thompson, Willard. "John A. Sutter, Sr., 1848: He Called it 'Sacramento'." Golden Notes 30(Spring 1984): 19-26.

[D282]
Thoreson, L. L. "Vallejo - A Friendly City." Grizzly Bear 62(September 1938): 4-5.

[D283]
Thorne, Tanis. ":The Almanacs of the San Francisco Bay Region, 1850-1861: A Neglected Historical Source." Journal of the West 17(April 1978): 36-45.

[D284]
Tillman, Robert H. "The Prosecution of Homocide in Sacramento County, California, 1853-1900." Southern California Quarterly 68(Summer 1986): 167-182.

[D285]
Tobiassen, William E. "Early Churches of Nevada County." Nevada County Historical Society 9(August 1955): 1-4.

[D286]
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[D286a]
Tracey, Patricia Cleland. "Cherokee Gold in Georgia and California." Journal of the West 39(2000): 49-54. (Cherokee Indians involvement in both Georgia and California gold rushes)

[D287]
"Trade Conditions at San Pedro in 1850: A Memorial to Congress." Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California 7(1906-1908): 164-168.

[D288]
Turner, Justin G. "The Sacramento Floods in the 1850s." Pacific Historian 8(August 1964): 129-133.

[D289]
Tye, Dorothy. "A Lodestone in Time." Pacific Historian 13(Winter 1969): 42-53. (Volcano, CA)

[D290]
Tyrrell, James C. "Grass Valley, Nevada County: The Largest Mining City of California." Grizzly Bear 23(June 1918): 18, 26-27.

[D291]
Upton, Will O. "Odd Place-Names of El Dorado County, California." Pony Express Courier 3(September 1936): 8-9.

[D292]
Uren, Edward C. "Queen of the Sierra: Nevada City." Grizzly Bear 51(May 1933): 28.

[D293]
Van Sicklen, Helen Putnam. "Jasper O'Farrell: His Survey of San Francisco." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(1933): 85-97.

[D294]
Vandegrift, Rollan A. "San Francisco, Queen City of the Pacific: Principal Episodes in History Set Forth in Rapid Review." Grizzly Bear 27(September 1920): 1-9.

[D295]
________. "San Joaquin, the 'Gateway County': Historical Sketch Dealing Particularly With Stockton, Lodi, Tracy." Grizzly Bear 28(April 1921): 4, Supplement 2-4.

[D296]
"Vigilance Committees of San Francisco." Overland Monthly 12(April 1874): 350-357.

[D297]
"Volcano: Mother of 90 Million Dollars." Pony Express Courier 7(August 1940): 10.

[D298]
Wacker, George. "Introduction [Yreka]." Siskiyou Pioneer 4:9(1976): v-ix.

[D299]
Waitman, Leonard. "The History of Camp Cady: The Early History of a Desert Water Hole." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 36(March 1954): 49-91.

[D300]
Warnecke, Mary D. "St. Canice Church." Nevada County Historical Society 9(November 1955): 3-4. (Catholic church, Nevada City)

[D301]
Weiss, Michael. "Education, Literacy and the Community of Los Angeles in 1850." Southern California Quarterly 60(Summer 1978): 117-142.

[D302]
Wells, Anna M. "Through a Woman's Eyes - Monterey 1854-55." Noticias del Puerto de Monterey 1(September 1957): 1-7.

[D303]
Wells, Harry L. "Early Days of the Golden Yuba." Pony Express Courier 2(February 1936): 4.

[D304]
________. "History of Siskiyou County, California: Chapter III: From the American Conquest to the Admission Into the Union." Siskiyou Pioneer 1:3(1949): 43-45.

[D305]
________. "Well's History of Siskiyou County: More About the Prospecting Party." Siskiyou Pioneer 2(Fall 1954): 53-56. (Gold discovery Yreka)

[D306]
________. "Well's History of Siskiyou County . . . Settlement by Gold Seekers." Siskiyou Pioneer 2(Spring 1954): 50-57, 62.

[D306a]
Wey, Nancy. "Fiddletown - Yesterday and Today." Gum Saan Journal 1(December 1977): 12-13.

[D307]
Wherrit, Eleanor. "Fort Jones Dedication . . . " Siskiyou County Historical Society Yearbook 1(1946): 5-8. (Siskiyou County)

[D308]
White, Thelma. "The Many Facets of the Sacramento River (River of Holy Sacrament)." Wagon Wheels 22(September 1972): 4-25.

[D309]
Whiteside, C.E. "Early Fires of San Francisco." Pony Express Courier 8(May 1942): 12-13.

[D310]
Whiteside, C.E. "Early Newspapers of San Francisco." Pony Express Courier 8(April 1942): 16.

[D311]
Wiegel, Loraine Heath. "Memoirs of Buckeye and Vicinity: Then and Now." Covered Wagon (1952): 3-31. (Near Redding)

[D312]
Wierzbicki, Felix Paul. "California As It Is and As It May Be, Part IV: Towns of California." The Californians 12:5(1995): 36-41.

[D313]
Williams, Henry F. "The Post Office in San Francisco." Publication of the Society of California Pioneers (1945): 27-34.

[D314]
Williams, James C. "Cultural Tension: The Origins of American Santa Barbara." Southern California Quarterly 60(Winter 1978): 349-378.

[D315]
Wiltsee, Ernest A. "The City of New York of the Pacific." California Historical Society Quarterly 12(March 1933): 25-33.

[D316]
________. "Double Springs, First County Seat of Calaveras County." Quarterly of the California Historical Society 11(June 1932): 176-183.

[D317]
Wood, Coke. "Murphys." Grizzly Bear 81(July 1948): 4-5, 15.

[D318]
Wood, L.K. "Discovery of Humboldt Bay." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(March 1932): 43-64.

[D319]
Woodward, Arthur. "Vallecito - Oasis of Romance." Pony Express Courier 4(September 1937): 3, 12-13.

[D320]
Woolsey, Ronald C. "Crime and Punishment: Los Angeles County, 1850-1856." Southern California Quarterly 61(Spring 1979): 79-98.

[D320a]
Yee, John. "Jimmy Chow, Fiddleton Pioneer." Gum Saan Journal 1(December 1977): 13-15.

[D321]
"The Yuba." Overland Monthly 5(November 1870): 444-448.

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