Primary Sources: American West

Against the vigilantes the recollections of Dutch Charley Duane by Charles P. Duane; John Boessenecker

Apron full of gold the letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856 by Polly W. Kaufman

An archive of hope : Harvey Milk's speeches and writings by Harvey Milk; Jason Edward Black (Editor); Charles E. Morris (Editor)

Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905 by Isaac Jones Wistar

California gold rush merchant ; the journal of Stephen Chapin Davis by Andrew C. Isenberg

California in 1792: A Spanish Naval Visit by Donald C. Cutter

California Letters of William Gill by William Gill

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890 by Kenneth L. Holmes

Documents on file in the Office of the attorney-general, relating to the boundary line between California and Arizona by California

Exterminate them written accounts of the murder, rape, and slavery of Native Americans during the California gold rush, 1848-1868 by Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor); Joel R. Hyer (Editor)

Ho for California. Personal reminiscences of William Rowe, Sr. of an overland trip from Rochester, Wisconsin to California in 1853 in company with "Lucky Baldwin". One of three typewritten copies of the narrative as originally published. by Sandra L. Myres (Editor)

John of the mountains; the unpublished journals of John Muir by Linnie M. Wolfe

Journals of Forty-niners Salt Lake to Los Angeles : with diaries and contemporary records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and others by Ann W. Hafen (Editor); Leroy R. Hafen (Editor)

Manifest Destiny by David S. Heidler; Jeanne T. Heidler

Polk ; the diary of a President, 1845-1849 : covering the Mexican War, the acquisition of Oregon, and the conquest of California and the Southwest by James K. Polk

Reminiscences of a ranger : early times in Southern California by Horace Bell