Authors: William T. Vollmann
50. Yolanda Sánchez Ogás,
Bajo El Sol de Mexicali
, 2nd. ed. (Mexicali, XIV Ayuntamiento: 1998; orig. ed. 1995).
51. [Packard.] University of California, College of Agriculture, Berkeley, Circular No. 159 (January, 1917): Walter E. Packard, “Agriculture in the Imperial Valley: A Manual for Settlers.”
52. Arthur G. Paul, President, Riverside Historical Society,
Riverside Community Book
(Riverside: Arthur H. Cawston, 1954).
53. John Malcolm Penn,
California State Landmarks: Imperial County in Story and Song
(Imperial County?: Radio Flier Music, 2003).
54. Philip R. Pryde, ed.,
San Diego: An Introduction to the Region
(Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. / prepared by the Department of Geography, San Diego State University, 1976).
55. Irmagarde Richards,
Our California Home
, 3rd. ed. (Sacramento: California State Department of Education, California State Series, 1937 repr. of 1933 ed.).
56. [Riverside City Directory (1921).]
Riverside City Directory 1921, Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens . . .
(Los Angeles: Riverside Directory Co., 1921).
57. [Riverside City Directory (1951).]
Los Angeles Directory Co.’s RIVERSIDE (California) City Directory 1951 . . . Also a BUYERS’ GUIDE and a Complete Classified Business Directory
(Los Angeles: Los Angeles Directory Co., 1951).
58. Riverside Fire Department,
Souvenir of the City of Riverside
(Riverside: Riverside Museum Press, 1987; orig. ed. 1906).
59. Norman C. Roberts,
Baja California Plant Field Guide
(La Jolla, California: Natural History Publishing Co., 1989).
60. [
Salton Sea Atlas
.] The Redlands Institute, University of Redlands,
Salton Sea Atlas
(Redlands, California: ESRI Press, 2002).
61. [San Diego City and County Directory (1901).]
San Diego City and County Directory 1901, For the Year March, 1901, to March, 1902
(San Diego: San Diego Directory Co.).
62. [San Diego City Directory (1950).]
San Diego (California) City Directory 1950, Including Chula Vista, Coronado, etc.
(San Diego: San Diego Directory Co., 1950).
63. Ann Foley Scheuring, ed.,
A Guidebook to California Agriculture
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
64. Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand and Jonathan P. West, eds.,
Borderlands Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983).
65. E. J. Wickson,
Rural California
(New York: Macmillan Co., Rural State and Province series, 1923).
66. Woods and Poole Economics, Inc.,
2003 State Profile California
(Washington, D.C., 2003).
67. [WPA.]
California, A Guide to the Golden State, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of California
(New York: Hastings House, American Guide ser., 1939).
68. Christopher Wray,
The Historic Backcountry: A Geographic Guide to the Historic Places of the San Diego County Mountains and the Colorado Desert
(La Mesa, California: self-published, 2004).
69. John C. Van Dyke,
The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances
, 2nd ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903).
H. MEMOIRS, DIARIES, CORRESPONDENCE, HISTORIES, PICTORIALS
1. Henry Adams,
History of the United States of America During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson
(1889) (New York: Library of America, 1986).
2. Edward Maddin Ainsworth,
Beckoning Desert
, Bill Bender, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962).
3. David Howard Bain,
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1999).
4. [Griffing Bancroft.] Griffing Bancroft,
Lower California: A Cruise; The Flight of the Least Petrel
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1932.)
5. [Bancroft.]
The Works of Hubert H. Bancroft
, vols. XVIII-XXIV (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1884- 90).
6.
Horace Bristol: An American View
, Ken Conner and Debra Heimerdinger, eds. (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996).
7. Billie Bernal,
Ocotillo: A Place in the Sun
(self-published, 1986).
8. Samuel T. Black,
San Diego County, California: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
, 2 vols. (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1913).
9. D. Mackenzie Brown,
China Trade Days in California: Selected Letters from the
[
Alpheus B.
]
Thompson Papers, 1832-1863
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947).
10. John Brown, Jr., and James Boyd,
History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties
(Chicago: Western History Association, Lewis Publishing Co., 1922). Only vol. 1 used.
11.
Journey of James H. Bull, Baja California, October 1843 to January 1844
, Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., ed. (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1965; Baja California Travels ser., no. 1. 1st complete version; abr. version previously pub. by Society of California Pioneers, 1954).
12.
Hepah, California: The Journal of Cave Johnson Couts; From Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los Angeles, California During the Years 1848-1849
, Henry F. Dobyns, ed. (Tucson: Arizona Pioneers’ Historical Society, 1961).
13. Harry W. Crosby,
Gateway to Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769
(San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2003).
14. Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin,
Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
15. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
, ed., trans. and w. intro. by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999 trans. of orig. 1542 Spanish ed.).
16. Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1911; text dated 1869).
17. Glenn S. Dumke,
The Boom of the Eighties in Southern California
(San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1944).
18. Wallace W. Elliott,
History of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties, with Illustrations
(San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1883).
19. [Wallace W. Elliott.]
History of Tulare County, California, with Illustrations
(San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1883).
20. Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Essays and Lectures
(New York: Library of America, 1983).
21. Brian M. Fagan,
Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: The Americas Before Columbus
(New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991).
22. [Judge] F. C. Farr, ed.,
The History of Imperial County, California
(Berkeley, California: Elms and Franks, 1918).
23. William M. Farris,
The 1847 Crossing of Imperial County, California, and Baja California, Mexico, by the U. S. Mormon Battalion
(El Centro: I. V. C. Museum Society, Occasional Paper No. 2, 1976).
24. Robert J. Fitch,
Profile of a Century: Riverside County, California, 1893-1993
(Riverside: Riverside County Historical Press, 1993).
25. Carl Flesichhauer and Beverly W. Brannan, eds., with essays by Lawrence W. Levine and Alan Trachtenberg,
Documenting America, 1935-1943
(Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congess, 1988).
26. Karen J. Frisby,
Imperial Valley: The Greening of a Desert
(Imperial: Imperial Valley College Desert Museum Society, Publisher, Occasional paper No. 9, 1993).
27. Paul W. Gates, ed.,
California Ranchos and Farms 1846-1862, Including the Letters of John Quincy Adams Warren of 1861, Being Largely Devoted to Livestock, Wheat Farming, Fruit Raising, and the Wine Industry
(Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967).
28. Alexander Hamilton,
Writings
(New York: Library of America, 2001).
29. [Elizabeth Harris.] Imperial County Historical Society.
The Valley Imperial
, Book I and Book II (Imperial?: Imperial Valley Pioneers/Imperial County Historical Society, 1991 slightly rev. repr. of orig. 1956-58 vols.).
30.
The Diary and Copybook of William E. P. Hartnell, Visitador General of the Missions of Alta California in 1839 and 1840
, Starr Pait Gurcke, trans. and ann., Glenn J. Farris, ed. (Santa Clara, California: California Mission Studies Association, 2004).
31. Carl Heilbron et al.,
History of San Diego County
(San Diego: San Diego Press Club, 1936).
32. Tracey Henderson,
Imperial Valley
(San Diego: Neyenesch Printers, Inc., San Diego, 1968).
33. [Leo Hetzel.] Joel Livernois, comp.,
Hetzel the Photographer: Impressions of Imperial Valley
(Fresno, California: Pioneer Publishing, 1982).
34.
History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California, Illustrated
(Chicago: Lewes Publishing Co., n.d.,
ca.
1890).
35. Theodore H. Hittell,
History of California
, vol. III (San Francisco: N. J. Stone & Co., 1897).
36. Captain James Hobbs, of California,
Wild Life in the Far West: Personal Adventures of a Border Mountain Man, Comprising Hunting and Trapping Adventures with Kit Carson and others; Captivity and Life among the Comanches; Services Under Doniphan in the War with Mexico, and in the Mexican War against the French; Desperate Combats with Apaches, Grizzly Bears, etc., etc.
(Glorieta, New Mexico: Rio Grande Press, 1969 repr. of undated 19th-cent. ed.).
37. Elmer Wallace Holmes and other well-known writers,
History of Riverside County, California, with Biographical Sketches
(Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1912).
38. Edgar F. Howe and Wilbur Jay Hall,
The Story of the First Decade in Imperial Valley, California
(Imperial, California: Imperial County Historical Society, 1988 repr. of 1910 ed.).
39. Rockwell D. Hunt, A.M., Ph.D., ed., assisted by an advisory board,
California and Californians, Issued in Five Volumes
, vol. II (by Rockwell Hunt) (San Francisco: Lewis Publishing Co., 1926).
40.
An Illustrated History of Southern California
(Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1890). [Front cover is imprinted with
“Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World.”
]
41. [
Imperial County: The Big Picture
]. Imperial Valley Press,
Imperial County: The Big Picture
, vol. 1:
Our Towns
(El Centro?: Printed by Quebecor World, 2004).
42. [Kerouac [Brinkley).] Jack Kerouac,
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
, Douglas Brinkey, ed. (New York: Viking, 2004).
43. Leonard Knight,
Salvation Mountain: The Art of Leonard Knight, with Commentary by the Artist
(Los Angeles: New Leaf Press, 1998).
44. Gary F. Kurutz, ed.,
California Pastorale: Selected Photographs 1860-1925
(Sausalito: Windgate Press, 1998).
45. Patricia B. Laflin,
Coachella Valley, California: A Pictorial History
(Virginia Beach: Donning Co., 1998).
46. [Pat(ricia) Laflin.]
The Periscope 1995: Salton Sea: California’s Overlooked Treasure
(Indio, California: Coachella Valley Historical Society, 1999 repr. of 1995 ed.).
47. [Patricia Baker Laflin.]
The Periscope 2000: A Century of Change in the Coachella Valley
(Indio, California: Coachella Valley Historical Society, 2000).
48. Christopher Landis,
In Search of Eldorado: The Salton Sea
(Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 2000).
49. Steve Lech,
Along the Old Roads: A History of the Portion of Southern California That Became Riverside County 1772-1893
(No place of publication given, but I would hazard Riverside, California: Published by the author, 2004).
50. Randolph Leigh,
Forgotten Waters: Adventure in the Gulf of California
(New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1941).
51. Richard G. Lilliard,
Eden in Jeopardy—Man’s Prodigal Meddling with His Environment: The Southern California Experience
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966).
52. Janice Marschner,
California in 1850: A Snapshot in Time
(Sacramento: Coleman Ranch Press, 2000).