Early Travels to & Within California

Books

• Argüello, Luis Antonio; The diary of Captain Luis Antonio Argüello : October 17-November 17, 1821 : the last Spanish expedition in California
  SPE 979.402 A772 1992 CAL
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe; Annals of Provincial California
  SPE 979.4 B213a 1880 CAL
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe; California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including Inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and List of pioneers
  SPE 920.0794 B213 1964 CAL
• Bean, Lowell John; Diaries & accounts of the Romero Expedition in Arizona and California, 1823-1826
  SPE 979 B367 1962 CAL
• Bolton, Herbert Eugene; Anza's California expeditions
  SPE 979.402 B694a 1930 vols. 1-5 CAL VAU
• Bolton, Herbert Eugene; Outpost of empire : the story of the founding of San Francisco
  SPE 979.461 B694 1931 CAL
• Boneu Companys, Fernando; Gaspar de Portola : explorer and founder of California
  SPE 979.401 P853zb 1983 CAL
• Brewer, William; Up and down California in 1860-1864
  SPE 979.4 B847 1930 CAL VAU; SPE 979.4 B847 1931 CAL
  SPE 979.4 B847 1966 CAL; SPE 979.4 B847 1974 CAL
• Bynum, Lindley; An early California Christmas in the year 1775 : taken from the manuscript diaries of J'n Bautista de Anza and Father Pedro Font through the courtesy of Bancroft Library
  SPE 394.26c B994 1950 BAC VAU

• Clapp, John T.; A journal of travels to and from California with full details of the hardships and privations : also a description of the country, mines, towns, etc.
  SPE 978 C589 1977 CAL
• Englebert, Omer; The last of the conquistadors, Junipero Serra, 1713-1784
  SPE 979.402 S487ze 1956 CAL
• Font, Pedro; The Anza expedition of 1775-1776 : diary of Pedro Font
  SPE 979.402 F677 1913 CAL
• Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo; A record of travels in Arizona and California, 1775-1776
  SPE f979.01 G215 1967 CAL
• Goodman, David M.; A western panorama, 1849-1875 : the travels, writings, and influence of J. Ross Browne on the Pacific Coast, and in Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, as the first mining commissioner and Minister to China
  SPE 979 B882zg 1966 CAL
• Hanna, Warren Leonard; Lost harbor : the controversy over Drake's California anchorage
  SPE 979.401 D761zh 1979 CAL
• King, Kenneth Moffat; Mission to paradise : the story of Junipero Serra and the missions of California
  SPE 979.402 S487zk 1975 CAL
• La Prouse, Jean-François de Galaup; Life in a California mission : Monterey in 1786 : the journals of Jean François de la Pérouse
  SPE 979.476 L311 1995 CAL
• Lemke, Nancy; Cabrillo : first European explorer of the California coast
  SPE 973.16 C117zL 1991 CAL

• Longinos Martínez, José; California in 1792 : the expedition of José Longinos Martínez
  SPE 979.402 L855 1938 CAL
• Morgado, Martin J.; Junipero Serra's legacy
  SPE f979.402 S487zm2 1987 CAL
• Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio; Voyage of the Sonora in the second Bucareli expedition to explore the Northwest coast, survey of the port of San Francisco, and found Franciscan missions and a presidio and pueblo at that port : the journal kept in 1775 on the Sonora
  SPE 090 R967 1920m BAC VAU
• Pourade, Richard F.; Anza conquers the desert : the Anza expeditions from Mexico to California and the founding of San Francisco, 1774 to 1776
  SPE 979.402 P877 1971 CAL
• Ruhge, Justin M.; Drake in Central California, 1579 : unravelling one of California's great historical mysteries
  SPE 979.491 D761zr 1990 CAL
• Watson, Douglas S.; The Spanish occupation of California : plan for the establishment of a government : junta or council held at San Blas, May 16, 1768. Diario of the expeditions made to California
  SPE 090 G728 1934w BAC VAU
• We were 49ers! : Chilean accounts of the California Gold Rush
  SPE 979.404 W361 1976 CAL
• Wilcox, Del; Voyagers to California
  SPE 979.4 W667 1991 CAL

Maps

• Capron, E. S.; History of California : from its discovery to the present time ; comprising also a full description of its climate, surface, soil, rivers, towns, beasts, birds, fishes, state of its society, agriculture, commerce, mines, mining, &c., with a journal of the voyage from New York via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and back, via Panama with a new map of the country
  SPE 979.4 C254 1854 CAL
• Historical atlas map of Santa Clara County, California
  SPE 979.473 H673 1876a CAL
• Jefferson, T. H.; Map of the emigrant road from Independence, Mo., to San Francisco, California
  SPE 978 J45 1945 CAL VAU
• McLaughlin, Glen; The mapping of California as an island : an illustrated checklist
  SPE 912.794 M161 1995 CAL
• Mountain passes and trails of California
  SPE 979.4 M928 1979 CAL; SPE 050.9794 B724 1979 CAL
• Olmstead, Duncan H.; A map of California : showing its delineation at various periods
  SPE f090 R887 1966o BAC VAU
• Thompson & West; Official and historical atlas map of Alameda County, California
  SPE f979.476 O32 1976 CAL
• Thornton, J. Quinn; Oregon and California in 1848
  SPE 979.4 T513o 1973 CAL; SPE 979.4 T513o 1855 v. 1 & 2 CAL VAU; SPE 979.4 T513o 1855 v. 1 & 2 CAL VAU
• To the golden shore : America goes to California, 1849
  SPE 979.404 T627 1995 CAL

Pamphlet File

• The Sacramento Room also has a pamphlet file with information on the subject of early travels to and within California under the headings "Exploration" and "Emigrant Road".