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The Cascarone Ball (Scribners, 1879B)
A Shrove-Tuesday ball in the Mexican community of old California.

Father Junipero and His Work (Century Magazine, 1883B)

Echoes in the City of the Angels (Century Magazine, 1884A)
The founding of Los Angeles, written when the city was only 100 years old.

An Attempted Division of California (Century Magazine, 1888B)
A brief and abortive effort during the Civil War to divide California into a "north" and "south."

How California Came Into the Union, by George Hamlin Fitch (Century Magazine, 1890B)

The Conquest of California, by John Charles Fremont (Century Magazine, 1891A)

Life in California Before the Gold Discovery, by John Bidwell (Century Magazine, 1891A)

Fremont in the Conquest of California, by John Bidwell (Century Magazine, 1891A)

The Discovery of Gold in California, by John S. Hittell (Century Magazine, 1891A)

Californiana (Century Magazine, 1890B, 1891A, 1891B)
A collection of short articles, essays, letters and stories about life in pioneer California.

Cape Horn and Cooperative Mining in '49, by Willard B. Farwell (Century Magazine, 1891B)

Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California, by Guadalupe Vallejo (Century Magazine, 1891A)

To California by Panama in 1849, by Julius H. Pratt (Century Magazine, 1891A)

Pioneer Spanish Families in California, by Charles Howard Shinn (Century Magazine, 1891A)
"With special reference to the Vallejos."

The Missions of Alta California, by John T. Doyle (Century Magazine, 1891A)

The First Emigrant Train to California, by John Bidwell (Century Magazine, 1891A)

A Miner's Sunday in Coloma, by Charles B. Gillespie (Century Magazine, 1891B)
From the author's California journal of 1849-1850.

To California in 1849 Through Mexico, by A.C. Ferris (Century Magazine, 1891B)

Pioneer Mining in California, by E.G. Waite (Century Magazine, 1891B)

Tarrying in Nicaragua, by Roger S. Baldwin, Jr. (Century Magazine, 1891B)
"Pleasures and perils of the California trip in 1849."

Pioneer Days in San Francisco, by John Williamson Palmer (Century Magazine, 1892A)

San Francisco Vigilance Committees, by William T. Coleman (Century Magazine, 1892A)

Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes, by W.T. Sherman (Century Magazine, 1892A)

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