Primary

Arguello, Luis Antonio. The Diary of Captain Luis Antonio Arguello: October 17-November 17, 1821: The Last Spanish Expedition in California. Translated by Vivian C. Fisher. Berkeley: The Friends of Bancroft Library, University of California, 1992.

Bancroft, Hubert H. California Pastoral, 1769-1848. San Francisco: The History Company, 1888.

Bolton, H., ed. Historical Memoirs of New California by Fray Francisco Palou. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926.

Carter, Charles Franklin. The Missions of Nueva California. San Francisco: Whitaker and Ray, 1900.

Choris, Louis. "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde..." In San Francisco One Hundred Years Ago. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1913.

Conley, Frances. Journey to a Distant Shore in Which a Captain in the Army of Spain Brings the First Settlers to California. San Pablo, CA: San Pablo Historical and Museum Society, 1904.

Costanso, Miguel. An Historical Journal of the Expeditions, by Sea and Land, to the North of California; in 1768; 1789, and 1770... London: George Bigg, 1790.

Costanso, Miguel. The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Diary of Miguel Costanso. Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 1992.

Coyner, David H. The LostTrappers: A Collection of Interesting Scenes and Events in the Rocky Mountains; Together with a Short Description of California: Also, Some Account of the Fur Trade... Cincinnati: J.A. & V.P. James, 1847.

Cutter, Donald C. The California Coast: A Bilingual Edition of Documents from the Sutro Collection. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

Drake, Sir Francis. The World Encompassed. London: Printed for Nicholas Bourne, 1652.

Fremont, John C. Memoirs of My Life. Chicago: Belford, Clark & Co., 1887.

Frost, John. History of the State of California: From the Period of the Conquest by Spain... New York: Hurst & Co., 1853.

Garcia, Inocente. Hechos Historicos de California: As Told by Thomas Savage. Santa Barbara, CA: Flair Studio of Printing, 1878.

On the Ambitious Projects in Russia in Regard to Northern West America, with Particular Reference to New Albion and New California... London: F. Shoberl, 1830.

Richman, Irving B. California Under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911.

Rockwell, John Arnold. A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law, in Relation to Mines, and Titles to Real Estate, in Force of California, Texas, and New Mexico... New York: J.S. Voorhies, 1851.

Tibesar, Antonine, ed. The Writings of Junipero Serra. 4 vols. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955-1966.

Wyld, James. Notes on the Distribution of Gold Throughout the World: Including Australia, California, and Russia. London: J. Wyld, 1853.
 

Secondary

Adams, Kenneth C. California Missions. Los Angeles: California Mission Trails Association, 1948.

Almaguer, Tomas. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Alvarez, Robert Jr. Familia: Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Archibald, Robert. "Indian Labor at the California Missions: Slavery or Salvation." Journal of San Diego History (1978).

Archibald, Robert. "The Economy of the Alta California Mission, 1803-1821." Southern California Quarterly (1976).

Archibald, Robert. The Economic Aspects of the California Missions. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1978.

Avina, Rose Hollenbaugh. Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in California. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

Bolton, H. Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast, 1769-1774. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927.

Bolton, Herbert E. "The Mission as a Frontier Institution in the Spanish American Colonies." American Historical Review (1917).

Campbell, Leon G. "The Spanish Presidio in Alta California During the Mission Period, 1769-1784." Journal of the West (1977).

Chapman, Charles E. A History of California: The Spanish Period, New York: Macmillan, 1921.

Chapman, Charles E. The Founding of Spanish California: The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain. New York: Macmillan, 1916.

Cook, Sherburne F. "Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California: Central Valley, 1820-1840." University of California Anthropological Records (1962).

Cowan, Robert G. Ranchos of California. Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1956.

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.

Engelhardt, Zephyrin. San Gabriel Mission and the Beginnings of Los Angeles. San Gabriel, CA: Mission San Gabriel, 1927.

Farris, Glenn. "The Russian Imprint on the Colonization of California." In Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West, edited by David H. Thomas. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Gibson, James R. Imperial Russia in Frontier America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Gordon, Burton L. Monterey Bay Area: Natural History and Cultural Imprints. Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1977.

Harlow, Neal. California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Heizer, Robert F. Elizabethan California. Ramona, CA: Ballena Press, 1974.

Holmes, Maurice G. From New Spain by Sea to the Californias, 1519-1668. Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1963.

Hornbeck, David. "Land Tenure and Rancho Expansion in Alta California, 1784-1846." Journal of Historical Geography 4 (Fall 1978): 371-90.

Hundley, Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Jones, Oakah L. Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.

Kelsey, Harry. "The California Armada of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo." Southern California Quarterly (1979).

Mackie, Richard Somerset. Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 1996.

Martinez, Oscar J. Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Mathes, W. Michael. Vizcaino and Spanish Exploration in the Pacific Ocean, 1580-1630. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1968.

McCarthy, Francis F. The History of Mission San Jose, California, 1797-1835. Fremont, CA: The Committee for the Restoration of the Mission San Jose, 1976.

Monroy, Douglas. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Morgan, Dale L. Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.

Ogden, Adele. "Hide and Tallow: McCullough, Hartnell and Company, 1822-1828." California Historical Society Quarterly (1927).

Ogden, Adele. The California Sea Otter Trade, 1784-1848. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.

Pitt, Leonard. Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Rawls, James J. "The California Mission as Symbol and Myth." California History (Fall 1992).

Reff, Daniel. Disease, Depopulation, and Culture Change in Northwestern New Spain, 1518-1764. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991.

Reps, John W. "Expansion of the Spanish Borderlands: Urban Settlement of Arizona and California in the Hispanic Era." In Cities of the American West, edited by John W. Reps. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Robinson, W.W. Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Rolle, Andrew F. Los Angeles: From Pueblo to City of the Future. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser Pub. Co., 1981.

Royce, Josiah. California: From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.

Schutz, John A. Spainís Colonial Outpost. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser Pub. Co., 1985.

Smith, Wallace. Garden of the Sun. Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, 1939.

Spicer, Edward H. Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962.

Sugden, John. Sir Francis Drake. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1990.

Tays, George. How Lands Were Granted in Hispanic America. Berkeley, CA, 1942.

Thomas, David H., ed. Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Torchiana, H.A. Van Coenen. California Gringos. San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1930.

Treutlein, Theodore E. San Francisco Bay: Discovery and Colonization. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1968.

Truett, Samuel. "Neighbors by Nature: Rethinking Region, Nation, and Environmental History in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." Environmental History 2, no. 2 (April 1997): 160-78.

Wagner, Henry R. Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1929.

Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Weber, David J., ed. New Spainís Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Whitehead, Richard S. "Alta Californiaís Four Fortresses." Southern California Quarterly (1983).

Winther, Oscar O. "The Story of San Jose, 1777-1868: Californiaís First Pueblo." California Historical Society Quarterly (1934).