Primary (Expedition Journals)
Cañizares, Jose. To Be Obtained.
Costanso, Miguel. The Diary of the San Francisco Bay: The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770. Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 1992. Print.
Crespi, Juan. A Description of Distant Road. San Diego, CA: San Diego State University Press, 2001. Print.
De Portola, Gaspar. Diary of Gaspar De Portola During The California Expedition of 1796 – 1770. Academy of Pacific Coast Highway. Print.
Serra, Frey Junipero. To Be Obtained.
Secondary
Crosby, Harry W. Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1667 –1768. University of New Mexico Press: 1994. Print.
Crosby, Harry W. Gateway to Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769. San Diego, CA: Sunbelt Publications, 2003. Print.
Crosby, Harry W. The King’s Highway in Baja California: An Adventure into the History and Lore of a Forgotten Region. Copley Books, 1974. Print.
Crosby, Harry W. Anza Conquers the Desert. San Diego, CA: Union-Tribune Publishing Company, 1971. Print.
Crosby, Harry W. The Call to California. San Diego, CA: Union-Tribune Publishing Company, 1968. Print.
Baja
Berger, Bruce and Exequiel Ezcurra. La Giganta Guadalupe. Planeta Penisula, 2010. Print.
Burckhalter, David. Baja California Missions: Into the Footsteps of the Padres. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2013. Print.
Crosby, Harry W. California Portraits: Baja California’s Vanishing Culture. Norman, OK: University of Oaklahoma Press, 2015. Print.
Dedina, Serge. Wild Sea: Eco-Wars and Surf Stories from the Coast of the Californias. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2011. Print.
Felix, Reyna Jaime. 101 Baja California Peninsula: Explore Baja. Sime Books, 2016. Print.
Kier, David. Baja California Land of Missions. El Cajon, CA: M & E Books, 2017. Print.
Kramer, Jennifer. Baja: Tijuana to Los Cabos. Berkeley, CA: Avalon Travel, 2017. Print.
O’Neil, Ann and Don. Loreto, Baja California: First Mission and Capital of Spanish Culture. Studio
City, CA: Tio Press, 2001. Print.
Peacock, Doug and Terrence Moore. Baja!. Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press, 1991. Print.
Steinbeck, John. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1995. Print.
Steinbeck, John. The Pearl. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1992. Print.
Vernon, Edward W. Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California. Santa Barbara, CA: Viego Press, 2002. Print.
Place Names
Bright, William. 1500 California Place Names: Their Oirgin and Meaning. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. Print.
Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymoly of Current Geographical Names. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2004. Print.
Hart, James D. A Companion to California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987. Print
Marinacci, Barbara and Rudy. California’s Spanish Place-Names: What They Mean and How They Got There. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1980. Print.
Walker, J. Michael. All the Saints of the City of Angels: Seeking the Soul of LA on Its Streets. Berkeley, CA: Heydey Books, 2008. Print.
Nature
Clark, Jeanne L. California Wildlife Viewing Guide. Helen, MT: Falcon Publishing, 1996. Print.
Cunningham, Laura. A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California. Berkeley, CA: Heydey Books, 2010. Print.
Farmer, Jared. Trees in Paradise: The Botanical Conquest of California. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2017. Print.
Fylling, Marni. Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2015. Print
Krutch, Joseph Wood. The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California. New York, NY: William Sloane Associates, 1961. Print.
Le Boeuf, Burney J. and Stephanie Kaza. The Natural History of Ano Nuevo. Pacific Grove, CA: The Boxwood Press, 1995. Print
Lenz, Lee W. Marcus E. Jones. Claremont, CA: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, 1986. Print.
Lombard, Kirk. The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2016. Print.
Mooney, Harold and Erika Zavaleta. Ecosystems of California. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. Print.
Roos-Collins, Margit. The Flavors of Home: A Guide to Wild Edible Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2016. Print.
Simpson, Lesley Byrd. Journal of Jose Longinos Martinez. San Francisco, CA: John Howell Books, 1961. Print.
Solnit, Rebecca and Mona Caron. A California Bestiary. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2010. Print.
Wicinas, David. Native Grandeur: Preserving California’s Vanishing Landscapes. San Francisco, CA: The Nature Conservancy of California: 2016. Print.
Indigenous Tribes
Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of
California’s Natural Resources. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Print.
Bean, Lowell John. The Ohlone Past and Present: Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region. Menlo Park, CA: Bellena Press, 1994. Print.
Drake, Barbara et al. Cooking the Native Way. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2018. Print.
Eargle Jr., Dolan H. Native California: An Introdutory Guide to the Original Peoples from the Earliest to Modern Times. San Francisco, CA: Tree Company Press, 2008. Print.
Frank, L and Kim Hogeland. First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians. Berkeley, CA: Heydey Books, 2007. Print.
Johnston, Bernice Eastman. California’s Gabrielino Indians. Los Angeles, CA: Southwest Museum, 1962. Print.
Kroeber, A.L. Handbook of the Indians of California. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc, 1976. Print.
Lightfoot, Kent G and Otis Parrish. California Indians and their Environments. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. Print.
Lightfoot, Kent G. Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Print.
Madley, Benjamin. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Print.
Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2003. Print.
Margolin, Malcolm. The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1993. Print.
Miller, Bruce W. The Gabrielino. Los Osos, CA: Sand River Press, 1991. Print.
Phillips, George Harwood. Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975. Print.
Platt, Tony. Grave Matters: Excavating California’s Buried Past. Berekely, CA: Heyday Books. 2011. Print.
Wilken-Robertson, Michael. Kumeyaay Ethnobotany: Shared Heritage of the Californias. San Diego, CA: Sunbelt Publications, 2018. Print.
Spanish Mexican Era Missions
Costo, Rupert and Jeanette Henry. The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. San Francisco, CA: Indian Historian Press, 1987. Print.
DeNevi, Don and Noel Francis Moholy. Junipero Serrra: The Illustrated Story of the Franciscan Founder of California’s Missions. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987. Print.
Eagen, I. Brent. San Diego de Alcala: California’s First Mission. San Diego, CA: Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala. Print.
Ingold, Ernest. The House in Mallorca. San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder & Co., 1950. Print.
Johnson, Paul C. The California Missions: A Pictorial History. Menlo Park, CA: Lane Book Company, 1964. Print.
Kimbro, Edna E and Julia G. Costello. The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2009. Print.
Levick, Melba and Ruben G. Mendoza. The Missions of California. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1998. Print.
Mathes, W. Michael. Vizcaino and Spanish Expansion in the Pacific Ocean, 1580-1630. San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1968. Print.
McLaughlin, David J. The California Missions Sourcebook. Phoenix. AZ: Pentacle Press, 2012. Print.
Sprietsma, Fr. Leo. Manuscript for a New History of Mission San Antonio de Padua: Part One – The Mission Period, 1771- 1835. Jolon, CA: Mission San Antonio, 1988. Print.
Weber, Msgr. Francis J. Prominent Visitors to the California Missions. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1991. Print.
General California History
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Literary Industries: Changing a Vanishing West. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2013. Print.
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. Land of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2001. Print.
Beers, Terr. Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California’s Landscapes. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2001. Print.
Brewer, Willian H. Up and Down California in 1860-1964. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966. Print.
Carrillo, Leo. The California I Love. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961, Print.
Caughey, John W. California: A Remarkable State’s Life History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970. Print.
Chase, J. Smeaton. California Coast Trails. Palo Alto, CA: Tioga Publishing Company, 1987. Print.
Chapman, Charles E. A History of California: The Spanish Period. New York, NY: The MacMillion Company, 1921. Print.
Corle, Edwin. The Royal Highway. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill, 1949. Print.
Dana Jr, Richard Henry. Two Years Before The Mast. New York, NY: Penguin Group, 1986. Print.
De La Perouse, Jean Francois. Monterey in 1786: Life in a California Mission. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1989. Print.
Denis, Alberta Johnson. Spanish Alta California. New York, NY: The MacMillion Group, 1927. Print.
Ellison, Willian H and Francis Price. The Life and Adventures in California of Don Agustin Janssens 1834-1856. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1953. Print.
Gutierrez, Ramon A and Richard J. Orsi. Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1997. Print.
Helvarg, David. The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2013. Print.
Jackson, Joseph Henry. The Western Gates: A San Francisco Reader. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952. Print.
Lewis, Oscar. Here Lived the Californians. New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1957. Print.
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2011. Print.
Mann, Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print.
McLaughlin, David J. Soldiers, Scoundrels, Poets & Priests: Stories of the Men and Women Behind the Missions of California. Phoenix, AZ: Pentacle Press, 2011 Print.
McPhee, John. Assembling California. New York, NY: Farrar, Staus & Giroux, 1994. Print.
Paddison, Joshua. A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1999. Print.
Pittman, Ruth. Roadside History of California. Missoula, MT: Moutain Press Publishing Company, 1995. Print.
Polk, Dora Beale. The Island of California: A History of the Myth. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. Print
Riesenberg Jr, Felix. The Golden Road: The Story of California’s Spanish Mission Trail. New York, NY: McGaw-Hill Book Company, 1962. Print.
Roberts, George and Jan. Discover Historic California: A Travel Guide to Over 1,800 Places You Can See. Baldwin, Park, CA: Gem Guides Book Company, 1999. Print.
Royce, Josiah. California: A Study of American Character. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2002. Print.
Starr, Kevin. California: A History. New York, NY: The Modern Library, 2005. Print.
Sundby, Edie Littlefield. The Mission Walker. Nashville, TN: W Publishing Group, 2017. Print.
Taylor, Bayard. El Dorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2000. Print.
Zimmerman, Tom. El Camino Real – Highway 101 & the Route of the Daylight. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation, 2013. Print.
Guide Books
Bensen, Sara. Lonely Planet: Coastal California. Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, 2015. Print.
California Coastal Commission. California Coastal Access Guide. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014. Print.
Grant, Ed. Piers of the California Coast. Library of Congress, 2014. Print.
Heid, Analise Elliott. Hiking and Backpacking Big Sur. Birmingham, AL: Wilderness Press, 2013. Print.
Hoover, Mildred Brooke, Hero Eugene Rensch and Ethel Grace Rensch. Historic Spots in California. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962. Print.
Jaconette, Lucinda. Monterey Bay and Beyond. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1994. Print.
Kampion, Drew. The Stormrider Guide North America. Cornwall, UK: Low Pressure LTD, 2002. Print.
Kyle, Douglas, E. Historic Spots in California. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. Print.
LeBien, Sara. Museums of Southern California. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1988. Print.
Parr, Barry. Explore! Big Sur Country. Guilford, CT: Falcon Guides, 2007. Print.
Peterson, Walt. The Baja Adventure Book. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2000. Print.
Pomeroy, Elizabeth. Lost and Found II: More Historic and Natural Landmarks Under Southern California Skies. Pasadena, CA: Many Moon Press, 2002. Print.
Stone, Robert. Day Hikes Around San Luis Obispo. Red Lodge, MT: Day Hike Books, Inc, 2015. Print.