Primary Sources for Sacramento & California History

Journeys by Sea

• Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste; A voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands & around the world : in the years 1826-1829
  SPE 090 R287 1997d BAC VAU
• Eaton, Margaret Holden; Diary of a sea captain's wife : tales of Santa Cruz Island
  SPE 979.491 E14 1980 CAL
• Hall, William Henry Harrison; Private letters and diaries of Captain Hall : an epic of an argonaut in the California gold rush, Oregon Territories, Civil War, and Oil City
  SPE 978 H181 1974 CAL
• Low, Garrett W.; Gold rush by sea
  SPE 979.404 L912 1941 CAL
• Lyman, Chester Smith; Around the Horn to the sandwich Islands and California, 1845-1850 : being a personal record kept by Chester S. Lyman
  SPE 979.404 L986 1924 CAL
• McLane, Louis; The private journal of Louis McLane, U.S.N., 1844-1848
  SPE 359.332 M161 1971 CAL
• Osbun, Albert Gallatin; To California and the South Seas, 1849-1851
  SPE 979.404 O81 1966 CAL
• Pierce, Richard; H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839 : being the accounts of Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simpkinson and Captain Edward Belcher
  SPE 979.403 P617 1969 CAL; SPE 090 C353 1969p BAC VAU
• Windeler, Adolphus; California Gold Rush diary of a German sailor
  SPE 979.404 W763 1969 CAL