Books about Urbanization -- California

Adobe days : being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor

Our Italy

The land of gold; reality versus fiction

The Adventures of a Forty-niner

A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California

Incidents on land and water : or, Four years on the Pacific coast; being a narrative of the burning of the ships Nonantum, Humayoon, and Fanchon, together with many startling and interesting adventures on sea and land

California, 1849-1913; Or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State

Californische Skizzen (German)