California Genealogy at Ancestry

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California Miscellaneous Items at Ancestry

  • A pioneer pastorate and times : embodying contemporary local transactions and events
  • Albert S. Evans, Life in California
  • Albert Williams, San Francisco, California Pastorate, 1849-54
  • Alexandre Dumas, Trip to California
  • Alonzo Delano, California Correspondence, 1849-1852
  • An old California pioneer
  • Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1849
  • Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1850
  • Benjamin Avery, California Poetry and Prose, 1878
  • Benjamin D. Wilson, Report on California Indians, 1852
  • CalGideon Lee Knapp, Extracts from Letters and Journals of Gideon Lee Knapp
  • California letters of William Gill
  • California Narratives: A Year of American Travel
  • California Narratives: California for Health, Pleasure and Residence
  • California Narratives: Early Voyages to California
  • California Narratives: Phoenixiana, or Sketches and Burlesques
  • California Narratives: Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life
  • California Narratives: The Adventures of a Forty-Niner
  • California Narratives: The Expedition of the Donner Party
  • California Narratives: Fourth Thousand, Life on the Plains
  • California Narratives: Glimpses of Hungryland
  • California Narratives: Summer Saunterings
  • Carl Meyer, Life in California
  • Caroline Churchill, California Travel Letters, 1870-73
  • Caroline Churchill, California Travel Letters, 1874-80
  • Charles Beebe Turrill , Notes
  • Charles Dowsett, California Land Sales Agent, 1891
  • Charles Holder, Life in California, early 1900s
  • Charles Murdock, California Printing and Politics, 1855-1910
  • Charles Painter, Report on the Indian Territory and California
  • Charles Peters, Autobiography, 1915
  • Charles Stoddard, Footsteps of the Padres, 1856
  • Charles Stoddard, Vacation Beyond the Rockies
  • Charles Warner, Southern California, 1890
  • Chauncey Canfield, Diary of a Forty-niner
  • Clark’s Point: a narrative of the conquest of California and of the beginning of San Francisco
  • Clifford Allen, Rail Trip to California, early 1900s
  • Colonel L.A. Norton, Life and Adventures
  • Constance Gordon-Cumming, Five Months in California
  • D.B. Bates, Trip from Massachusetts to California, 1850
  • Daniel Woods, Sixteen Months in California, 1849-50
  • David A. Shaw, California As Seen by a Pioneer
  • David Leeper, Life in California, 1849-1854
  • David Phillips, Life in California, 1876
  • Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 : which led to that event
  • Don Janssens, Life and Adventures
  • Dow Stephens, Jayhawker in California, 1849
  • Dr. William McCollum, Trips to California, 1849-50
  • Early days at the Mission San Juan Bautista
  • Edward D. Holton, Rail Trip to California, 1879
  • Edward G. Buffum, Three Years in California, 1847-1849
  • Edward McGowan, Life in California, 1856
  • Edward McIlhany, Recollections of a ’49er, 1908
  • Edward S. Parkinson, California Summer, 1892
  • El Pueblo
  • Elisha Crosby, California Memoirs
  • Eliza and James Gregson, Life in California, 1840s
  • Eliza Burhans Franham, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State
  • Emma Adams, Trips to California, 1880s
  • Enos Christman, Life in California, 1849-1852
  • Ernest de Massey, Life in California’s Gold Rush
  • Evelyn Hertslet, Ranch Life in California, 1885
  • Felix Wierzbicki, California Guidebook, 1849
  • Frank Leach, Early California Newspaperman
  • Frank Marryat, California Mountains and Molehills, 1855
  • Franklin Buck, Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush
  • Franz Lecouvreur, From East Prussia to the Golden Gate
  • Frederick Gay, Sketches of California, 1848
  • Frederick Rindge, Life in California, Late 1800s
  • Fremont Older, My Own Story
  • Friedrich Gerstacker, A German Perspective
  • Friedrich W. C. Gerstacker, Travels in America
  • Genealogical records from Mrs. Otis O. Fleming
  • Genealogical records from Mrs. Serge Ballif
  • George W. Bryan, Recollections of a California Pioneer
  • George Weeks, California Newspaperman
  • Hariet Harper, Six Months in California, 1888
  • Harris Newmark, Sixty Years in California
  • Harvey Rice, Letters from California, 1870
  • Heinrich Lienhard, Life at Sutter’s Fort, 1840s
  • Helen H. Jackson, Glimpses of California and the Missions
  • Henry Brewer, Surveying California, 1860-64
  • Henry Ellis, Trip from Maine to California, 1849
  • Henry Huntley, California Gold, 1856
  • Henry Vizetelly, Four Months in the California Gold Fields
  • Herman Scharmann, Journey to California
  • Hinton Helper, Life in California, 1850s
  • Hiram Dwight Pierce, A Forty-Niner Speaks
  • Horace Bell, More Reminiscences, 1860s
  • Horace Bell, Reminiscences, 1850s
  • Hubert Howe Bancroft, Literary Industries: A Memoir
  • In Tamal land
  • Isaac Mylar, San Juan Bautista Mission, California, 1860s
  • J. W. Linkins, California Book Agent, 1868-74
  • J.G. Player-Frowd, Six Months in California, 1870s
  • Jackson Graves, Seventy Years in California
  • Jacob Barzilla, Camping Out in California
  • Jacob Harlan, Wagon Trip to California, 1846
  • James Abbey, A Trip Across the Plains, 1850
  • James Brown, Finding Gold at Sutter’s Mill, 1848
  • James Carson, California Mining Life, 1848-52
  • James Hamilton, Life in California
  • James J. Ayers, Journalist, 1849-1890
  • James Steele, Sketch of California History, 1889
  • James Tyson, California Physician, 1849
  • James Woods, Church Work in California, 1850-60
  • Jessie Benton Fremont, Far-West Sketches
  • Johann Sutter, Diary
  • John Bidwell, Life in California
  • John Bidwell, Living in California, 1841-89
  • John Borthwick, Three Years in California, 1851-54
  • John Brown, Reminiscences of San Francisco, 1886
  • John Letts, Life in California
  • John Muir in the Sierras
  • John Ross Browne, Crusoe’s Island
  • John Ross Browne, The Debates of the Convention of California
  • John Swan, Life in California, 1848
  • John Todd, The Sunset Land or The Great Pacific Slope
  • Joseph Heco, From Japan to California, 1850, Part 2
  • Joseph Heco, Life in California
  • Joseph Le Conte, Travels through the High Sierra
  • Joseph W. Hines, Pacific Coast Pioneer
  • Judge Benjamin Hayes, California Diary
  • Kimball Webster, Seeking Gold in California, 1849-54
  • Lee Whipple-Haslam, Life in California
  • Lell Woolley, Sixty-four Years in California
  • Leonard Kip, Gold Mine Sketches
  • Lewis and Elizabeth Stickney, Records of a Calfornia Family
  • Lilian Cross, Life in California
  • Lloyd Briggs, Trips to California
  • Lone Mountain: the most revered of San Francisco’s hills : annals of the pioneers copied from headstones and other old record
  • Loraine Pratt Immen, California Travel Letters, 1896
  • Louise Clappe, Letters from California, 1851-52
  • Lucius Fairchild, California Letters, 1849-1855
  • Luther Schaeffer, Sketches of California, 1860
  • Luzena Wilson, Life in California
  • Mary Cone, Two Years in California, 1873-75
  • Mary Wills, Winter in California, 1888
  • Michael White, Life in Mexican California, early 1800s
  • Mina Deane Halsey, A Tenderfoot in Southern California
  • Oscar Fitzgerald, 20 Years in California
  • Oscar Fitzgerald, 20 Years in California, 2nd Edition
  • Peter Burnett, Life in California
  • Pioneer days and Kebo Club nights
  • Prentice Mulford, Life in California
  • Pringle Shaw, California Mining, 1857
  • Red horizons
  • Richard Dana, Two Years in California, 1834-36
  • Richardson-Snedigar genealogy
  • Robert La Follette, Autobiography, 1913
  • Samuel H. Willey, Thirty Years in California
  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Roughing It
  • Samuel McNeil, Trip to California, 1849
  • Samuel Upham, Voyage to California, 1848
  • Sarah Smith, Raised On a California Sheep Ranch, 1870s
  • Semi-Tropical California, Its Climate, Healthfulness, Productiveness and Scenery
  • Sim Moak,The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California
  • So, this is California!
  • Solomon Mead, Notes of Two Trips to California and Return
  • Stephen Davis, Gold Rush Merchant, 1850-1854
  • Stephen Field, Practicing Law in California, 1850
  • Susie Clark, From Boston to California, 1890
  • Thaddeus Kenderdine, California Travels, 1858-1859
  • Thaddeus Kenderdine, Return to California, 1898
  • The march of Portol
  • The pioneer steamer California, 1848-1849
  • The romantic southland of California
  • Theodore Johnson, Life in California, 1849
  • Thomas Chard, California Sketches, 1888
  • Walter Colton, Three Years in California, 1846-1849
  • Walter Fisher, Life in California, 1870s
  • William Francis White, A Picture of Pioneer Times in California
  • William H. Davis, Seventy-Five Years in California
  • William Hutton, Glances at California, 1847-53
  • William Kelly, Excursion to California, Vol. 1, 1849
  • William Kelly, Excursion to California, Vol. 2, 1849-1850
  • William Kip, Early Days of My Episcopate
  • William Pond, Calfornia Congregationalism, 1833-1920
  • William Ryan, Adventures in California, Vol. 1
  • William Ryan, Adventures in California, Vol. 2
  • William Shaw, Trip from Australia to California, 1849
  • William Sherman, Recollections of California, 1846-61
  • William Taylor, Life in California, 1849-1855
  • William Taylor, Preaching in California, 1849-56

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