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Sacramento

Isleton, California (Images of America)

History of Sacramento County California With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present

California's South Sacramento Valley: Includes Colusa, Sacramento, Sutter, Yuba & Yolo Counties
"Derived from David Durham's definitive gazetteer of California, California s' Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State, this new popularly priced series is certain to attract the attention of everyone interested in California history, geography, of current events; whether a scholarly researcher, a curious traveler, a backcountry hiker or a casual reader of Californiana."

An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California
(1890)

Vanishing Victorians; a Guide to the Historic Homes of Sacramento

Old Sacramento: a Reference Point in Time

Sacramento: an Illustrated History: 1839 to 1874 From Sutter's Fort to Capital City

Sold!  History of Sacramento County California  
(1913)

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San Benito

1920 Credit Directory Madera and San Benito Counties, California

Beyond The Pinnacles: The History and Folklore of Southern San Benito County

The City of History: San Juan Bautista, California

 

Wielding the Gavel: the Story of the Courts of San Benito County From 1874 Through 1994

Aftershock: The Loma Prieta Earthquake and Its Impact on San Benito County

 

Pinnacles Guide: Pinnacles National Monument, San Benito County, California

 

Early Days at the Mission San Juan Bautista

East of the Gabilans
"For more than two centuries the peaceful grasslands east of the Gabilans in San Benito and south Santa Clara counties have captivated Californians. East of the Gabilans is a unique history of this special land. Here is the record of the Spanish and Mexican land grants, the ranchos of pre-American California, the lives of the Spanish and Mexicans, and the advent of the Americans in the 1840s and 1850s -- the Castros, the Breens, the towns of San Juan Bautista, Hollister, Gilroy, and Tres Pinos, and Henry Miller, the "Cattle King,..."
 

 

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San Bernardino

History of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties, California with Illustrations - 1883

History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, With Select Biography of Actors and Witnesses of the Period of Growth and Achievement

A History of Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura

Saga of the San Bernardinos

 

History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties

 

Ingersoll's Century Annals of San Bernardino County 1769 to 1904, prefaced with, A Brief History of the State of California supplemented with An Encyclopedia of Local Biography and Embellished with Views of Historic Subjects and Portraits of Many of its Representative People

A History of Some Early Families at Oak Glen

Lugo: A Chronicle of Early California

 

 

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San Diego

San Diego County Historical Scrapbook: a Picture History of San Diego County

History of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties, California with Illustrations - 1883

The HARRIS - GRAVES Families Pioneers of El Cajon

A History of Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura

Album of San Diego and Coronado Beach, California
(Circa 1887)

Frontier Port: a Chapter in San Diego's History

The Coronado Story

Coronado, the Enchanted Island

City of Coronado, California: December 19, 1957

Union Title-Trust Topics. 43 Issues From 1946-1961

Financial Directory for 1929 San Diego County, California

Historical San Diego: the Birthplace of California

San Diego County Place-Names: Yesterday's People, Today's Geography

Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County

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San Francisco

San Francisco CA Blue Book (1907) (on CD)

San Francisco CA Blue Book (1908) (on CD)

San Francisco's Potrero Hill (Images of America)

Index to San Francisco Marriage Returns: 1850-1858

Inventory of the Archives of California: City and County of San Francisco

San Francisco Since 1872 a Pictorial History of Seven Decades

Foibles, Fun, Flukes, Facts: Of Life In World War I, San Francisco, France, Oakland, And Los Angeles

GRIER of San Francisco: Builder in the West and His Family 1878-1988

Genealogy and Family History of a Branch of the New England UPHAM Family Settled in California: Showing the Ancestors of Isaac UPHAM of San Francisco and Others

San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists

Index To Great Register. City And County Of San Francisco [Registered Voters]

San Francisco As It Is. Being Gleanings from the Picayune, 1850 - 1852

San Francisco and Oakland Chinese Telephone Directory March 1938

Passenger List, Grace Line, S. S. Santa Paula, Voyage Thirty Three (33), Sailing from New York, April 13, 1935 for Columbia, Panama Canal, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Railway Passenger Lists of Overland Trains to San Francisco and the West (Volume 1)

Railway Passenger Lists of Overland Trains to San Francisco and the West, Vol II. November 14, 1871 To April 23, 1873

Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide

Historic Walks in San Francisco: 18 Trails Through the City's Past

San Francisco Blue Book. Thirty-First Annual Edition, Residence and Club Address Directory. Names Arranged Alphabetically and Numerically By Streets, Giving Private Phones...(Etc. Etc. )
(1918)

San Francisco Chronicles of 1892

The Blue Book and Club Directory 1931

The Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco: Including the Famous Bummer & Lazarus and Emperor Norton

Old San Francisco: the Biography of a City From Early Days to the Earthquake

The City at the End of the Rainbow San Francisco and Its Grand Hotels

The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, & Present Condition of California

(1850)

 

Crocker-Langley San Francisco Directory for the Year Ending June, 1917: Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms & Private Citizens...

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San Joaquin

California's North San Joaquin Valley: Includes San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced Counties

1850 Census: San Joaquin County, California CD

History of San Joaquin County, California, With Illustrations

The Far Westerner

The Railroads of San Joaquin County (California)

By-Laws of the Farmers' Trade Union, of Clements, San Joaquin County, California
(1885)

Lodi: A Vintage Valley Town

Remember When: Lodi in the Fifties and Sixties

Sold!  Remember When: Lodi in the Seventies, Vol. IV

Sold!  Gold Mountain Record Stories: Volume 3, Stories of Early Families

Sold!  A History of Lodi, California from Early Times to 1906

A History of the Lodi Grape Festival

Lodi: the Early Years: Volume II

Polk's Stockton City and San Joaquin County Directory 1928. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character...

Polk's Stockton City and San Joaquin County Directory 1931. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders of Stockton and Lodi, Rural Routes...

Polk's Stockton California City Directory 1940 Including Lodi. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders of Stockton and Lodi, Rural Routes...

Polk's Stockton California City Directory 1947-48 Including Lodi. Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders of Stockton and Lodi, Rural Routes...

The Chinese Community of Stockton, California (Images of America)

Building the Heart of an Empire

Samfow: The San Joaquin Chinese Legacy

The Valley's Legends and Legacies

Stockton's Historic Public Schools

Stockton Memories: a Pictorial History of Stockton, California

History of the Stockton Fire Department 1850-1908

Stockton's Theatre of Yesterday

[Lithograph] Stockton Looking East. San Joaquin County, Cal. Original Bird's Eye View

Harbor of the Heartlands. a History of the Inland Seaport of Stockton, California, From the Gold Rush to 1985

Pioneer Leather Tanners: a History of the WAGNER Family
Stockton, San Joaquin County

Captain Charles M. WEBER: Pioneer of the San Joaquin and Founder of Stockton, California. With a Description of His Papers, Maps

A History of Stockton from its Organization up to the Present Time...
(1880)

To the Land of Bright Promise: the Story of a Pioneer Japanese Truck Farming Family in California's San Joaquin Valley

Sold!  Map of Stockton and San Joaquin County California. Compliments of Pacific Storage-Moving
Circa 1945.

Official Hearne Brothers Polyconic Projection Map of Greater Stockton With All of San Joaquin County
Circa 1940.

Sold!  Courage, Change and Vision: Chronicles of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department from 1848-2003

Cities and Towns of San Joaquin County Since 1847

Sold!  Index to History of San Joaquin County, California

Guide to Historical Locations (in San Joaquin County)

Chinese Clothing & Theatrical Costumes in the San Joaquin County Historical Museum

Favorite & Original Recipes of the Members of the San Joaquin County Harm Home Department of the Farm Bureau

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San Luis Obispo

Old Picture Postcards: A Historic Journey Along California's Central Coast

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California

Camp San Luis Obispo (Images of America)

Parade Along the Creek: San Luis Obispo Memories of the 1920s Through '60s

Portrait of a Place: San Luis Obispo

A Vast Pastoral Domain: San Luis Obispo County in the 1870s

The Story of San Luis Obispo County

Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa, 1772-1972: a Historical Sketch

Memories of the Land: Place Names of San Luis Obispo County

San Luis Obispo County Pathways: a Guide to the Historic Highlights of the County

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San Mateo

History of San Mateo County, California

1930 Burlingame, California Financial Directory

Cypress Lawn: Guardian of California's Heritage

Pillars of the Past: A Guide to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California

City of Souls: San Francisco's Necropolis at Colma

Gateway to the Peninsula: a History of the City of Daly City, San Mateo County, California

Polk's Palo Alto Directory 1928 Buyer's Guide and Complete Classified Business Directory (Embracing East Palo Alto, Ravenswood, Stanford University, and Menlo Park

 

San Mateo: God's Country

The Illustrated History of San Mateo County, California

Early Inns and Roadhouses: a History of Hospitality in San Mateo County

 

Crossroads: People & Events of the Redwoods of San Mateo County

 

Peninsula Portrait: an Illustrated History of San Mateo County

 

An Enduring Heritage: Historic Buildings of the San Francisco Peninsula

 

Official San Mateo Souvenir Booklet: Centennial 1856-1956

 

1930 San Mateo, California Financial Directory

 

History of San Mateo County, California, Including Its Geography, Topography, Geology, Climatography, and Description, Together With an Historical Sketch of California...
(1883)

 

South From San Francisco; San Mateo County, California, Its History and Heritage
 

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Santa Barbara

Goleta: The Good Land

Goleta Depot: The History of a Rural Railroad Station

Vintage Valley: The Wineries of Santa Barbara County

The Western Front: The War Years in Santa Barbara County 1937 to 1946

The Pictorial Story of Santa Barbara County California, Including Mexican Land Grants and Ranchos With a Thumb Nail Sketch of the County's Development, Featuring Fifty Early Historical Photographs

Swinging the Censer: Reminiscences of Old Santa Barbara

Old Picture Postcards: A Historic Journey Along California's Central Coast

A Brief History of Santa Barbara County: California's Wonderful Corner

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California

Santa Barbara Architecture: From Spanish Colonial to Modern

Santa Barbara and Montecito; Past and Present

Citadel on the Channel: The Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, Its Founding and Construction, 1768-1798

Cities of Santa Barbara County

California's Wonderful Corner: True Stories for Children From the History of the Santa Barbara Region

Sold!  The History of Santa Barbara County: Its People and Its Resources

Adobe Days Along the Channel 

San Ramon Chapel Pioneers and Their California Heritage

A Brief History of Santa Barbara

Facts Behind the Fame of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County

Roots, Recipes, & Recollections

Polk's Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara County, Calif. ) City Directory 1957

Historical High Lights of Santa Barbara

History of Santa Barbara County, California (From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volumes I & II)

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Santa Clara

The BROWNs of Madronia: Family of Abolitionist John BROWN, Buried in Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga, California

Saratoga Stereopticon: A Magic Lantern of Memory

Sunshine, Fruit & Flowers: Santa Clara County, California

The Valley of Santa Clara: Historic Buildings, 1792-1920

Los Gatos

Milipitas

An Enduring Heritage: Historic Buildings of the San Francisco Peninsula

It All Happened Right Here! A Child's History of Santa Clara County
(1954)

Chinese Argonauts: an Anthology of the Chinese Contributions to the Historical Development of Santa Clara County

Declarations of Intention for Naturalization, Santa Clara County, California..

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Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz County Place Names

Santa Cruz County: Restless Paradise: an Illustrated History

Polk's 1981 Watsonville (Santa Cruz County, Ca.) City Directory Including: Freedom, La Selva Beach, Pajaro, Rio Del Mar and Seacliff

Santa Cruz County: Parade of the Past
 

The Art Glass Windows of Bonny Doon

By-the-Sea: A History of the Capitola Begonia Festival

Corralitos

 

Soquel Landing to Capitola By the Sea

Santa Cruz is in the Heart: Selected Writings on Local History, Culture, Politics & Ghosts

Surf, Sand & Streetcars: A Mobile History of Santa Cruz, California

The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture

 

Watsonville High School: A Century of Memories 1892-1992

 

Highlights in the History of Watsonville, California

 

Watsonville: Memories That Linger

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Shasta

California's North Sacramento Valley: Includes Butte, Glenn, Shasta, Siskiyou & Tehama Counties

Sold!  Pioneers. Sketches of Pioneer Days in Shasta, Tehama, Trinity and Siskiyou Counties With Emphasis on the Beginnings of Religious Organizations

Shasta County, California: A History

 

Place Names of Shasta County

In the Shadow of the Mountain: a Short History of Shasta County, California

 

Redding & Shasta County, Gateway to the Cascades

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Sierra

California Heartland: A Pictorial History and Tour Guide of Eight Northern California Counties-- Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte, Nevada, Sierra

Downieville: Gold Town on the Yuba

Reproduction of Fariss and Smith's History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, California, 1882; and Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers

 

History of Sierra County

 

Historic Spots in California-Valley and Sierra Counties

California's Pioneer Mountaineer of Rabbit Creek
John Thomas MASON of Sierra County

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Siskiyou

The DEAL Family of Hornbrook, California

Evergreen Cemetery, Yreka, Siskiyou County, California: Alphabetical and Location Lists of Graves

California's North Sacramento Valley: Includes Butte, Glenn, Shasta, Siskiyou & Tehama Counties

Sawbones in Siskiyou

Sold!  Pioneers. Sketches of Pioneer Days in Shasta, Tehama, Trinity and Siskiyou Counties With Emphasis on the Beginnings of Religious Organizations

Sold!  Unique, Original 1867 Way-Bill. Marysville and Yreka
From the seller: "Dated Friday, April 19, 1867; Fine; One page. 15-3/4x9-1/2, folded in three. Contains time of departure and arrival, names of passengers and their destinations, fares, notations by drivers, and agent."

The Siskiyou Pioneer...

History of Siskiyou County, California, Illustrated With Views of Residences, Business Buildings and Natural Scenery

 

Saddle Bags in Siskiyou

 

Gold Mining in Siskiyou County 1850-1900

 

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Solano

1850 Census: Solano County, California CD

History of Solano and Napa Counties California; From Their Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

Reflections: a Pictorial History of Vallejo

Financial Directory for 1929 Solano County, California

Vallejo

Solano: the Crossroad County, an Illustrated History

History of the Catholic Community in Suisun-Fairfield, 1861-1986

A Doctor's Gold Rush Journey to California

Sold!  California Railway Museum (Solano County)

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Sonoma

The FINLEYs of Early Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County, California Cemetery Records: 1846-1921

Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, 1852-1980: A Listing of Burials in Fulkerson, Moke, Rural and Stanley Cemeteries

Sonoma County Marriages, 1847-1902

Early School Attendance Records of Sonoma County, California, Beginning 1858

The 1930 School Census of Sonoma County, California

Inventory of Records 1834-1978 Office of the Recorder Sonoma County, California

California's Old Wine Country: Includes Napa & Sonoma Counties

Sold!  Historical Atlas Map of Sonoma County California: Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations and Actual Surveys

Just Before Yesterday: a History of Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County Death Records, 1873 - 1905

History of Sonoma County Including Its Geology, Topography, Mountains, Valleys and Streams....

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Sutter

Sutter Buttes, Land of Histum Yani, Sutter County, California

Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Sutter County, California

California Heartland: A Pictorial History and Tour Guide of Eight Northern California Counties-- Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte, Nevada, Sierra

California's South Sacramento Valley: Includes Colusa, Sacramento, Sutter, Yuba & Yolo Counties
"Derived from David Durham's definitive gazetteer of California, California s' Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State, this new popularly priced series is certain to attract the attention of everyone interested in California history, geography, of current events; whether a scholarly researcher, a curious traveler, a backcountry hiker or a casual reader of Californiana."

Worth Keeping: An Architectural History of Sutter & Yuba Counties, California

The Survivors: Existing Homes and Buildings of the Historical Past in Yuba and Sutter Counties

Changes in Harmony: an Illustrated History of Yuba & Sutter Counties

Yuba and Sutter Counties, California: Their Resources, Advantages, and Opportunities
(1887)

Some of the Nation's Best Cooks Live in Yuba & Sutter Counties, California: Here is a Treasury of Their Favorite Recipes

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Tehama

California's North Sacramento Valley: Includes Butte, Glenn, Shasta, Siskiyou & Tehama Counties

Map of Red Bluff, Tehama County, California

Sold!  Tehama County Tax Receipt Dated December 17, 1884
From the seller: "For taxes paid by the H. J. GLENN Estate against property valued at $41, 804.00. GLENN came to California to mine gold in 1849 but began wheat farming, at which he became so successful as to earn the title "Wheat King. " His 55, 000 acres of land were split from Colusa County in 1891 and named Glenn County in his memory.

Sold!  Rare Vintage Promotional Brochure: California the Golden. Lands in and Around the Famous Maywood Colonies
Circa 1903. From the Seller: "Covers a trifle faded, else fine Compliments of Woodland & Burke, Corning, Cal. 20 pp. 11 cm. x 18 cm. Rare promotional brochure for agricultural lands in the northern Sacramento Valley's Tehama County. No institutional copies located via Melvyl and OCLC. [Not in Rocq]."

Sold!  Pioneers. Sketches of Pioneer Days in Shasta, Tehama, Trinity and Siskiyou Counties With Emphasis on the Beginnings of Religious Organizations

The First Fifty Years: a Pictorial Essay of Tehama County

Tehama: Little City of the Big Trees

Sold!  50 Years of Rodeo a Pictorial History of the Red Bluff Round-Up

A Festival of Olives: Olive Recipes From the Olive City
Corning, California

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Trinity

Sold!  Pioneers. Sketches of Pioneer Days in Shasta, Tehama, Trinity and Siskiyou Counties With Emphasis on the Beginnings of Religious Organizations

History of the Weaverville Joss House and the Chinese of Trinity County, California

Pioneer Records of Trinity County, California

Trinity County Historic Sites

Infinitely Trinity-Essays About Life in Trinity County

Weaverville, Trinity County, California

Stories of a Gold Miner: Trinity County 1848-1861

Pioneer Days in California. Historical and Personal Sketches

Trinity Pictorial: a Photo Essay of Trinity County

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Tulare

Central California: Includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern Counties

Land of the Tules: the Early Years of Tulare County

Story of Tulare County and Visalia

Sold! History of Tulare and Kings Counties California

The Way It Was: the Colorful History of Tulare County

Men of the Mammoth Forest: a Hundred-Year History of a Sequoia Forest and Its People in Tulare County, California

Tulare County

A Modern History of Tulare County

Handbook of Yokuts Indians

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Tuolumne

Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa, California. Illustrated

Sold! Unique, Original Bill of Sale From Jacob SHEARER to Lester BURNETT
(1856) Long Bar, Tuolomne county document.

Historic Legends of Tuolumne County

Annals of Tuolumne County

Prentice Mulford's California Sketches

Saga of Old Tuolumne

The Story and Sketches of Columbia

Sold! [Tuolumne County]. Miners & Business Men's Directory. for the Year Commencing January 1st, 1856. Embracing a General Directory of the Citizens of Tuolumne, and Portions of Calaveras, Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties...

A History of Tuolumne County, California. Compiled From the Most Authentic Records

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Ventura

A Surname Register of 13,000 Ancestors of the Ventura County Genealogical Society of California, 1500-1983

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California

A History of Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura

The Determined Mrs. Rindge and Her Legendary Railroad: a History of the Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway

 

Legends and Lore of the Long Ago (Ventura County, California)

 

The County Star, My Buena Ventura

 

Isla De Los Vaqueros: the Ranching History of Santa Rosa Island 1843-Present

 

Mines, Murders & Grizzlies: Tales of California's Ventura Back Country

 

Polk's 1982 Santa Paula Fillmore (Ventura County, Calif. ) Directory

 

Old-Timers' Tales of Fillmore

 

Early Ventura County Marks & Brands and Their Owners 1822-1869 & 1889 the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 39 No. 1.

 

A Pictorial History of Ventura County, California  

 

Port Hueneme: a History

 

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Yolo

California's South Sacramento Valley: Includes Colusa, Sacramento, Sutter, Yuba & Yolo Counties
"Derived from David Durham's definitive gazetteer of California, California s' Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State, this new popularly priced series is certain to attract the attention of everyone interested in California history, geography, of current events; whether a scholarly researcher, a curious traveler, a backcountry hiker or a casual reader of Californiana."

Yolo County: Land of Changing Patterns

Sold! Clarksburg: Delta Community

Davisville '68: the History and Heritage of the City of Davis, Yolo County, California

Hesperian College 1861-1898

Knights Landing the River, the Land and the People