Gold Mines & Mining in California

Books

• Bachelis, Faren Maree; The Pelican guide to Sacramento and the gold country
  SPE 979.454 B119 1987 SAC; SPE 979.454 B119 1987 SAA
• Ballantyne, Verne; How and where to find gold
  SPE 622.1841 B188 1983 CAL
• Brady, Jerry; You Bet gold fever : a true documenation
  SPE 979.437 B812 1983 CAL
• Calhoon, F. D.; A self-guided tour of the Grass Valley-Nevada City mine sites
  SPE 979.437 C152 1973 CAL
• California geology : sesquicentennial issue : California gold discovery to statehood
  SPE 979.4 C15332 1998 CAL
• Coy, Owen Cochran; In the diggings in 'Forty-nine
  SPE 979.404 C881 1948 CAL
• Davis, Frank; 100 years ago : true stories of early California's gold mining days
  SPE 979.4404 D261 1980 CAL
• Ellsberg, Helen; Mines of Julian
  SPE 979.498 E47 1972 CAL
• Geologic guidebook along highway 49 : Sierran gold belt : the Mother Lode country
  SPE 557.94 G918 1948 CAL
• The gold mines of California : two guidebooks
  SPE 979.404 G618 1973 CAL; SPE 979.404 G618 1974 CAL
• Gold rush country : guide to California's Mother Lode and northern mines
  SPE 979.4 S958g 1957 CAL; SPE 979.4 S958g 1968 CAL

• Gray, Thorne B.; Quest for deep gold : the story of La Grange, California
  SPE 979.457 G782 1973 CAL
• Johnston, W. D.; The gold quartz veins of Grass Valley, California
  SPE 622.3422 J73 1940 CAL VAU
• Kelly, Leslie A.; California's gold rush country
  SPE f979.404 K29 1997 CAL
• Lindgren, Waldemar; The tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California
  SPE 622.3422 L745 1978 CAL; SPE 622.3422 L745 1911 CAL
• Minke, Pauline; Chinese in the Mother Lode, 1850-1870
  SPE 305.8951 M665 1974 CAL
• Placer gold deposits of the Sierra Nevada
  SPE 553.41 P697 1997 CAL
• Reinstedt, Randall A.; Gold in the Santa Lucias
  SPE 979.476 R374g 1973 CAL
• Robinson, John W.; Mines of the San Gabriels
  SPE 622.09794 R662 1973 CAL
• Toole, Delos; Where to find gold in California : an epic gold journal of classic information
  SPE 622.3422 D671 1994 CAL
• Truman, Stanley; Gold rush country
  SPE f979.404 G6182 1981 CAL
• Wheeler, Richard S.; Sierra : a novel of the California gold rush
  SPE fic CAL
• Wilson, Norman L.; Spanish Hill : Placerville's mountain of gold
  SPE 622.3422 W751 1998 CAL

Maps

• Lee, Bob; Bob Lee's guide to lost mines and buried treasures of San Diego County
  SPE 979.498 L477 1973 CAL
• Klein, James; Where to find gold in the Mother Lode
  SPE 622.3422 K64w 1982 CAL
• Pierce, Richard A.; Lost mines and buried treasures of California : fact, folklore and fantasy concerning 110 sites of hidden wealth succinctly and accurately described, with a map for the guidance of treasure seekers
  SPE 979.4 P617 1962 CAL; SPE 979.4 P617 1964 CAL
• Robinson, Fayette; California and its gold regions : with a geographical and topographical view of the country ; its mineral and agricultural resources, prepared from official and other authentic documents, with a map of the U. States and California, showing the routes of the U. S. Mail steam packets to California ; also the various overland routes
  SPE 979.404 R659 1849 CAL VAU

Pamphlet File

• The Sacramento Room also has a pamphlet file with information on the subject of gold mines and mining in California under the subject headings "Geology," "Gold Country," "Gold Dredging," "Gold Mines and Mining," "Gold Scales," "Mines and Mineral Resources."