Primary Sources for Sacramento & California History

Women in the West

• Butruille, Susan; Women's voices from the Mother Lode : tales from the California gold rush
  SPE 979.43 B987 1998 CAL
• Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1890
  SPE 978.02092 C873 1983 CAL (11 volumes)
• Day, Ella Perry Stockton; Letter of a pioneer daughter : Ella Perry Stockton Day
  SPE 979.454 D273 1998 SAC
• Drury, Clifford Merrill; First white women over the Rockies; diaries, letters, and biographical sketches of the six women of the Oregon Mission who made the overland journey in 1836 and 1838
  SPE 266 D796 CAL (3 volumes)
• Eaton, Margaret Holden; Diary of a sea captain's wife : tales of Santa Cruz Island
  SPE 979.491 E14 1980 CAL
• Foote, Mary; A Victorian gentlewoman in the Far West : the reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote
  SPE 813 F689 1972 CAL
• Frink, Margaret A.; Journal of the adventures of a party of California gold seekers
  SPE 979.404 F914 1988 CAL
• Gould, Jane; The Oregon & California trail diary of Jane Gould in 1862 : the unabridged diary
  SPE 978 G697 1993 CAL
• Hays, Lorena; To the land of gold and wickedness : the 1848-59 diary of Lorena L. Hays
  SPE 979.020924 H425 1988 CAL
• Hitchcock, Martha; A salon at Larkmead : a charmed life in the Napa Valley
  SPE 979.419 H674 2000 CAL
• Ho for California! : Women's overland diaries from the Huntington Library
  SPE 978 H678 1980 CAL
• Levy, Jo Ann; They saw the elephant : women in the California gold rush
  SPE 979.404082 L668 1990 CAL
• Royce, Sarah; A frontier lady : recollections of the gold rush and early California
  SPE 979.4 R888f 1932 CAL
• Shirley, Dame; The Shirley letters : from the California mines, 1851-1852
  SPE 978.404 C589 1949 CAL
• Ward, Harriet Sherrill; Prairie schooner lady : the journal of Harriet Sherrill Ward, 1853
  SPE 978.02 W268 1959 CAL
• Wheelwright, Jane Hollister; Ranch papers : a California memoir
  SPE 979.475 W566 1988 CAL