Books about California -- Gold discoveries

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days

The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840 : and, Reminiscences of village life and of Panama and California from 1840 to 1850

Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California

Death Valley in '49

Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal

Six months in the gold mines : from a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9

Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850

The land of gold; or, Three years in California

History of the State of California

Prentice Mulford's story: life by land and sea

The gold hunters : A first-hand picture of life in California mining camps in the early fifties

The land of gold; reality versus fiction

The Adventures of a Forty-niner

Sixteen months at the gold diggings

What I Saw in California

The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado

The gold seekers of '49 : a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854

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

Californische Skizzen (German)

Three years in California [1851-54]

The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys

Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon

California illustrated : including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes