Indigenous Peoples
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Blackburn, T., and K. Anderson, eds. Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1993.
Clark, Galen. Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity, their [sic] History, Customs and Traditions. 4th edition. Yosemite Valley, CA: G. Clark, 1910.
Cook, Sherburne F. The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976.
Coombs, G., and F. Plog. "The Conversion of the Chumash Indians: An Ecological Interpretation." Human Ecology 5 (1977): 309-328.
Couro, Ted. San Diego County Indians as Farmers and Wage Earners. Pamona, CA: Ballena Press, 1975.
DuBois, Constance Goddard. The Condition of the Mission Indians of Southern California. Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1901.
Gobalet, K.W., and T.L. Jones. "Prehistoric Native American Fisheries of the Central California Coast." Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124, no. 6 (November 1995): 813- 823.
Gould, R. A. "Ecology and Adaptive Response Among the Tolowa Indians of Northwestern California." Journal of California Anthropology 2 (1975): 148-170.
Gutiérrez, Ramón, and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Heizer, Robert F., and Albert B. Elsasser. The Natural World of the California Indians. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Heizer, Robert F., and Gordon W. Hewes. Animal Ceremonialism in Central California in the Light of Archaeology. Lancaster, PA: n.p., 1940.
Heizer, Robert F., and T. K. Whipple, eds. The California Indians: A Source Book. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971.
Jackson, Robert H. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Kroeber, A. L. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Printing Office; Smithsonian Institute Bureau of American Ethnology, 1925.
Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.
Lewis, Henry T. Patterns of Indian Burning in California: Ecology and Ethnohistory. Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1973.
Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1978.
Merchant, Carolyn, ed. Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998.
Spence, Mark. "Dispossessing the Wilderness: Yosemite Indians and the National Park Ideal, 1864-1930." Pacific Historical Review 65 (February 1996): 27-59.
Flora and Fauna
Burgess, Sherwood D. "The Forgotten Redwoods of the East Bay." California Historical Society Quarterly 30 (March 1951): 1-14.
Chaney, Ralph W. Redwoods of the Past. Berkeley: Save-the-Redwoods League, 1964.
Clark, Galen. The Big Trees of California. Yosemite Valley, CA: Press of Reflex Publishing Co., 1907.
Crampton, B. Grasses in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Cronise, Titus Fey. The Natural Wealth of California. San Francisco and New York: H.H. Bancroft & Co., 1868.
Dawson, W. L. The Birds of California. 4 vols. South Moulton Co., 1923.
Dedina, Serge. Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Doughty, Robin W. "San Francisco's Nineteenth-Century Egg Basket: The Farallons." Geographical Review 61, no. 4 (1971): 544-572.
Doutt, Richard L. "The Historical Development of Biological Control." In Biological Control of Insect Pests and Weeds, edited by Paul DeBach, 3-20. New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1964.
Ellsworth, Rodney Sykes. The Giant Sequoia. Oakland, CA: J.D. Berger, 1924.
Foster, Michael S. The Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests in California: A Community Profile. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1985.
Gordon, Burton L. Monterey Bay Area: Natural History and Cultural Imprints. Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1974.
Harris, Tom. Death in the Marsh (Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge). Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991.
Holloran, Peter. "Seeing the Trees Through the Forest: Oaks and History in the Presidio." In Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Recent Politics, Culture, ed. by James Brook, Chris Carlsson, and Nancy J. Peters. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998: 333-52.
Johnston, Hank. Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine. Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, 1968.
Leopold, A. Starker, and Tupper Ansel Blake. Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
McBride, Joe, and Diana Jacobs. The Ecology of Redwood and the Impact of Man's Use of the Redwood Forest for Recreational Activities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
McCullough, Dale R. The Tule Elk: Its History, Behavior, and Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Merchant, Carolyn, ed. Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998.
Minnich, Richard A., and Ernesto Franco Vizcaino. Land of Chamise and Pines: Historical Accounts and Current Status of Northern Baja California's Vegetation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
Muir, John. The Yosemite. New York: Century Company, 1912.
Parfit, Michael. "California Desert Lands: A Tribute to Sublime Desolation." National Geographic 189.5 (May 1996): 54-80.
Preston, William. Vanishing Landscapes: Land and Life in the Tulare Lake Basin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Rowell, Galen. "Falcon Rescue." National Geographic 179, no. 4 (April 1991): 106-116.
Skinner, J. E. An Historical Review of the Fish and Wildlife Resources of the San Francisco Bay. Sacramento: Water Project Branch Report; California Dept. of Fish and Game, 1962.
Strong, Douglas H. Tahoe: An Environmental History. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Vencil, Betsy. "The Migratory Bird Treaty Act: Protecting Wildlife on Our National Refuges-- California's Kesterson Reservoir, a Case in Point." Natural Resources Journal 26, no. 3 (July 1986).
Warren, Viola Lockhart. "The Eucalyptus Crusade." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 44 (March 1962): 31-42.
Warrick, Sheridan F., and Elizabeth D. Wilcox, eds. Big River: The Natural History of an Endangered Northern California Estuary. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California Environmental Field Program, 1981.
Zedler, Paul H., Clayton R. Gautier, and Gregory S. McMaster. "Vegetation Change in Response to Extreme Events: The Effect of a Short Interval Between Fires in California Chaparral and Coastal Scrub." Ecology 64, no. 4 (1983): 809-818.
Agriculture and Ranching
Chan, Sucheng. The Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Chernykh, E.L. "Agriculture of Upper California: A Long Lost Account of Farming in California as Recorded by a Russian Observer at Fort Ross in 1841." Pacific Historian 11, no. 1 (1967): 10-28.
Cleland, Robert G. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880. Second ed. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1951.
Coke, J. Earl, and Ann Foley Scheuring. Reminiscences of People and Change in California Agriculture, 1900-1975. Davis, CA: University of California Press, 1976.
Edwards, Everett E. A Bibliography on the Agriculture of the American Indians. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1942.
Galarza, Ernesto. Farm Workers and Agribusiness in California, 1947-1960. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977.
Gates, Paul W. "Public Land Disposal in California." Agricultural History 49 (January 1975): 158-178.
Gates, Paul W., ed. The Fruits of Land Speculation. New York: Arno Press, 1979.
Gonzalez, Gilbert. Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Gutiérrez, Ramón, and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Igler, David. "Industrial Cowboys: Corporate Ranching in Late Nineteenth-Century California." Agricultural History 69, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 201-216.
Jenny, Hans. E.W. Hilgard and the Birth of Modern Soil Science. Pisa, Italy: Collanda della Revista "Agrochimica," 1961.
Merchant, Carolyn, ed. Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998.
Minnick, Sylvia Sun. Samfow: The San Joaquin Chinese Legacy. Fresno, Ca.: Panorama West Publishing, 1988.
Olmstead, A.L., and P. Rhode. "An Overview of California Agricultural Mechanization, 1870- 1930." Agricultural History 62 (September 1988): 86-112.
Sawyer, Richard C. To Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996.
Street, Richard Steven. "Tattered Shirts and Ragged Pants: Accommodation, Protest, and the Coarse Culture of California Wheat Harvesters and Threshers." Pacific Historical Review 67, no. 4 (November 1998): 573-608.
Vaught, David. "An Orchardist's Point of View: Harvest Labor Relations on a California Almond Ranch, 1892-1921." Agricultural History 69, no. 4 (Fall 1995): 563-592.
Warren, John Quincy Adams. California Ranchos and Farms, 1846-1862, Including the Letters of John Quincy Adams Warren of 1861, Being Largely Devoted to Livestock, Wheat Farming, Fruit Raising... Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.
Weber, Devra. Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Wells, George Stevens. Garden in the West; A Dramatic Account of Science in Agriculture. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969.
Water, Irrigation, and Reclamation
Conniff, Richard, and Rick Rickman. "California: Desert in Disguise." National Geographic 184, no. n5A (November 1, 1993): 38-54.
de Roos, Robert. The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1948.
deBuys, William. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Elkind, Sarah S. Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. Maps by Aaron J. Weier. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Elkind, Sarah S. "Industry and Water Distribution in California: The East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1920-1930." Environmental History Review 18 (Winter 1994): 63-88.
Elkind, Sarah S. Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Forstenzer, Martin. "Mono Lake's Deadly Dust." Audubon 95, no. 5 (September/October 1993): 29-34.
Gill, Garmulch, Edward Gray, and David Seckler. "The California Water Plan and Its Critics." In California Water, edited by David Seckler, 3-27. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Gregor, H. "Water and the California Paradox." In California Revolution, edited by Cary McWilliams. New York: Grossman, 1968.
Hart, John. Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Hoffman, Abraham. Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.
Hundley, Norris, Jr. Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Hundley, Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s to 1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Igler, David. "When Is a River Not a River?" Environmental History 1, no. 2 (April 1996): 52-69.
Jackson, William T., and Donald J. Pisani. Lake Tahoe Water: A Chronicle of Conflict Affecting the Environment. Davis, CA: University of California, Davis; Institute of Governmental Affairs, 1972.
Kahrl, William L. Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Long, David R. "Pipe Dreams: Hetch Hetchy, the Urban West, and the Hydraulic Society Revisited." Journal of the West (July 1995): 19-31.
Miller, M. Catherine. "Who Owns the Water?: Law, Property, and the Price of Irrigation." Journal of the West 29 (October 1990): 35-41.
Mitchell, Martin D. "The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: Initial Transformation into a Water Supply and Conveyance Node, 1900-1955." Journal of the West 35.1 (Jan. 1996): 44-54.
Pisani, Donald J. "Land Monopoly in Nineteenth-Century California." Agricultural History 65, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 15-37.
Pisani, Donald J. From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Viking, 1986.
Sauder, Robert A. The Lost Frontier: Water Diversion in the Growth and Destruction of Owens Valley Agriculture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.
Storper, Michael, and Richard Walker. The Price of Water: Surplus and Subsidy in the California State Water Project. Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1984.
Teisch, Jessica. "The Drowning of Big Meadows: Nature's Managers in Progressive-Era California." Environmental History 4, no. 1 (January 1999): 32-53.
Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Industrialization
Benton, Lisa M. The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.
Brechin, Gray, and Robert Dawson. Farewell, Promised Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Bronson, William. How to Kill a Golden State. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
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Carranco, Lynwood F., and John T. Labbe. Logging the Redwoods. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1975.
Commoner, Barry. The Closing Circle. New York: Knopf, 1972.
Davis, Lewis G. The Problem of Air Pollution in the San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley: University of California, 1971.
Davis, Mike. City of Quartz. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
deBuys, William, and Joan Myers. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Devall, Bill, ed. Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books/Earth Island Press, 1993.
Dowall, David E. The Suburban Squeeze: Land Conversion and Regulation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Fritz, Emanuel. The Development of Industrial Forestry in California. Seattle: University of Washington College of Forestry, 1960.
Fritz, Emanuel. The Story Told by a Fallen Redwood. 3rd ed. Berkeley, Ca.: Save-the-Redwoods League, 1939.
Gilliam, Harold. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1969.
Gore, Rick. "Living with California's Faults." National Geographic 187.4 (April 1995): 2-36.
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Gumprecht, Blake. Los Angeles River. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Hurt, Bert. "Sawmill History of the Sierra National Forest, California." Timberman 44 (March 1943): 10-13, 30-32.
Issel, William. "Land Values, Human Values, and the Preservation of the City's Treasured Appearance: Environmentalism, Politics, and the San Francisco Freeway Revolt." Pacific Historical Review 68 (November 1999): 611-46.
Jackson, W. Turrentine, and Donald J. Pisani. From Resort Area to Urban Recreation Center: Themes in the Development of Lake Tahoe, 1946-1956. Davis, CA: University of California, Institute of Governmental Affairs, 1973.
Johanneck, Donald P. A History of Lumbering in the San Bernardino Mountains. Redlands, CA: San Bernardino County Museum, 1975.
Johnston, Hank, and James Law. Railroads of the Yosemite Valley. Long Beach, CA: Johnston- Howe Publication, 1963.
Krier, James, and Edmund Ersin. Pollution and Policy: A Case Essay on California and the Federal Experience with Motor Vehicle Air Pollution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977.
McCarty, James C. Water Pollution and San Francisco Bay. San Francisco: Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1966.
McCown, William H. "Early Day Sawmills on Russian River: An Account of the `Inexhaustible' Redwood Forests That Once Lay Within Fifty Miles of San Francisco." Timberman 32 (February 1931): 28-29, 60.
McGowan, William H. "Fault-lines: Seismic Safety and the Changing Political Economy of
McPhee, John. "Los Angeles Against the Mountains" in The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1989.
Norris, Frank. The Octopus: A Story of California. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.
Perkins, John H. Insects, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis: The Quest for New Pest Management Strategies. New York: Plenum Press, 1982.
Pincetl, Stephanie S. Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Quam-Wickham, Nancy. "Cities Sacrificed on the Altar of Oil": Popular Opposition to Oil Development in 1920s Los Angeles." Environmental History 3, no. 2 (April 1998): 189-209.
Ross, C. George. The Urbanization of Rural California: A Study of Land Use and Markets for Recreational Land Developments in State, 1964-1974. Berkeley: Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, 1975.
Roth, Matthew W. "Mulholland Highway and the Engineering Culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s." Technology and Culture 40, no. 3 (July 1999): 545-575.
Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women Unionization and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
Stanger, Frank M. Sawmills in the Redwoods: Logging on the San Francisco Peninsula, 1849-1967. San Mateo, CA: San Mateo County Historical Society, 1967.
Tygiel, Jules. The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Tyrrell, Ian. True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Van Duers, George. "The Russians Logged the Redwoods First." American Forests 65 (January 1959): 29-31, 61-62.
Wellock, Thomas Raymond. Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Wellock, Thomas Raymond. Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Williams, James C. Energy and the Making of Modern California. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1997.
Mining and the Gold Rush
Caughey, J. W. The California Gold Rush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Clappe, Louise Amelia. The Shirley Letters, Being Letters Written in 1851-1852 from the California Mines. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1985.
Dillon, Richard, ed. "Mother Lode Memoir: Reminiscences of George A. Marshall." Journal of the West 3, no. 3 (1964): 355-368.
Dornin, George D. Thirty Years Ago, 1849-1879: Gold Rush Memories of a Daguerreotype Artist. Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Pub., 1995.
Goodman, David. Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Holliday, J. S. Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California. Berkeley: Oakland Museum of California and University of California Press, 1999.
Hurtado, Albert L. "Sex, Gender, Culture, and a Great Event: The California Gold Rush." Pacific Historical Review 68 (November 1999): 1-20.
Jackson, W. Turrentine. The History of Mining in the Plumas Eureka State Park Area, 1851- 1890. Sacramento, CA: Division of Beaches and Parks, October 1960.
Kelley, Robert L. "Forgotten Giant: The Hydraulic Gold Mining Industry in California." Pacific Historical Review (November 1954): 343-356.
Kelley, Robert. Gold vs. Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley, 1959.
Lind, Anna M. "Women in Early Logging Camps: A Personal Reminiscence." Journal of Forest History 19 (July 1975): 128-135.
Marks, Paula M. Precious Dust: The America Gold Rush Era, 1848-1900. New York: W. Morrow, 1994.
Paddison, Joshua, ed. A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1999.
Rawls, James J., and Richard J. Orsi, eds. A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Royce, Sarah. A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977 [1932].
Smith, Duane. 1987. Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press.
Vischer, Edward. "A Trip to the Mining Regions in the Spring of 1859." California Historical Society Quarterly 11, no. 4 (1932): 321-338.
Culture
Barrio, Raymond. The Plum Plum Pickers. Tempe: Bilingual Press, 1969.
Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Choris, Louis. "The Russian Sea Otter Trade." In Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, edited by Louis Choris, 16-20. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1913.
Comstock, David A. "Proper Women at the Mines: Life at Nevada City in the 1850's." Pacific Historian 28, no. 3 (1984): 65-73.
Dasmann, Raymond F. California's Changing Environment. San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser, 1981.
Davis, Mike. "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn." Environmental History Review 19 (Summer 1995): 1-36.
Davis, Susan G. Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Dawson, Robert, and Gray Brechin. Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Deverell, William, Greg Hise, and David C. Sloane, "Orange Empires: Comparing Miami and Los Angeles." Pacific Historical Review 68, no. 2 (May 1999): 145-152.
Dilsaver, Lary M. "Resource Conflict in the High Sierra." In The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography, edited by Lary M. Dilsaver and William Wyckoff, 281-302. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Fletcher, Thomas C. Paiute, Prospector, Pioneer: The Bodie-Mono Lake Area in the Nineteenth Century. Lee Vining, CA: Artemisia Press, 1987.
Guthrie, A. B. 1988. Big Sky, Fair Land: The Environmental Essays of A.B. Guthrie. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press.
Harris, David. The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods. New York: Random House, 1996.
Hornbeck, David. "Land Tenure and Rancho Expansion in Alta California, 1784-1846." Journal of Historical Geography 4, no. 4 (1978): 371-390.
King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [1935], 1871.
Lokke, Janet. "`Like a Bright Tree of Life': Farmland Settlement of the Sacramento River Delta." California History 59, no. 3 (1980): 222-239.
McEvoy, Arthur. The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Nash, Gerald. "Problems and Projects in the History of Nineteenth-Century California Land Policy." Arizona and the West 2 (Winter 1960): 327-340.
Olmsted, Frederick Law. "The California Frontier, 1863-1865." In The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Vol. V. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Rowntree, Lester B. "Drought During California's Mission Period, 1769-1834." Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 7, no. 1 (1985): 7-20.
Saloutos, T. "The Immigrant in Pacific Coast Agriculture, 1880-1950." Agricultural History 49 (1975): 182-201.
Scott, Allen J., and Edward W. Soja. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Smith, Michael L. 1987. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Spaulding, Jonathan. "Yosemite and Ansel Adams: Art, Commerce, and Western Tourism." Pacific Historical Review 65.4 (Nov. 1996): 615-637.
Spence, Mark. "Dispossessing the Wilderness: Yosemite Indians and the National Park Ideal, 1864-1930." Pacific Historical Review 65.1 (Feb. 1996): 27-60.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin Classics, 1992.
Twain, Mark. Roughing It. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984.
Wheat, Frank. California Desert Miracle: The Fight for Desert Parks and Wilderness. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 1999.
Conservation and Environmental Movements
Albright, Horace M., and Frank A. Taylor. "How We Saved the Big Trees." Saturday Evening Post 225 (February 1953): 31-32, 107-108.
Carson, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
DeVoto, Bernard. "Conservation: Down and on the Way Out." Harper's Monthly 209 (August 1954): 66-74.
Dilsaver, Lary M., and Douglas H. Strong. "Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource management." California History 69 (Summer 1990): 98-117.
Fox, Steven. John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.
Gilliam, Harold. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Bay: The Struggle to Save San Francisco Bay. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1969.
Huth, Hans. "Yosemite: The Story of an Idea." Sierra Club Bulletin 33 (March 1948): 47-78.
Jones, Holway R. John Muir and the Sierra Club: The Battle for Yosemite. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1965.
McCloskey, Michael, and Albert Hill. Mineral King: Mass Recreation Versus Park Protection in the Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971.
Muir, John. "The Hetch-Hetchy Valley: A National Question." Sierra Club Bulletin 16, no. 5 (1910): 263-269.
Nash, Roderick. "The American Invention of National Parks." American Quarterly 22 (Fall 1970): 726-735.
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. 3rd ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.
Pinkett, Harold T. "Sources of American Forest and Conservation History." Journal of Forest History 25 (October 1981): 210-212.
Runte, Alfred. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Schrepfer, Susan. The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Strong, Douglas H. "The Sierra Forest Preserve: The Movement to Preserve the San Joaquin Valley Watershed." California Historical Society Quarterly 46, no. 1 (1967): 3-17.
Wellock, Thomas. "The Battle for Bodega Bay: The Sierra Club and Nuclear Power, 1958-1964." California History 71 (Summer 1992): 192-211, 289-291.
Landscape and Land Use
Darlington, David. "After the Firestorm: The Fire that Swept through the Oakland-Berkeley Hills Left Behind a Landscape of Eerie Beauty..." Audubon 95, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 72- 84.
Davis, Susan G. "Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California." Pacific Historical Review 68, no. 2 (May 1999): 173-192.
Eichorn, Arthur Francis. The Mt. Shasta Story; Being a Concise History of the Famous California Mountain. Mount Shasta, CA: Mount Shasta Herald, 1957.
Farquhar, Francis, ed. Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
Goin, Peter. Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Muir, John. "The Beauties of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley." Federation Bulletin 7, no. 5 (1910): 148- 150.
Ogden, Kate Nearpass. "Sublime Vistas and Scenic Backdrops: Nineteenth-Century Painters and Photographers at Yosemite." California History 69 (Summer 1990): 134-153.
Parsons, James J. "A Geographer Looks at the San Joaquin Valley." Geographical Review 76, no. 4 (1986): 371-389.
Robinson, W. W. Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Script, Homesteads. 1979 rept. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948.
Sawa, Martin. Land Use Planning on California Indian Reservations. Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 1978.
Todd, John. The Sunset Land; or the Great Pacific Slope. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870.
Vale, Thomas R., and Geraldine R. Vale. Time and the Tuolumne Landscape: Continuity and Change in the Yosemite High Country. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994.