Further Reading to Learn About the Lives of People Mentioned Here and More

Women in Early California

 

Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present by Gloria G. Harris

Private Women, Public Lives: Gender and the Missions of the Californias by Barbara O. Reyes

Presidarias y Pobladoras: Spanish-Mexican Women in Frontier Monterey, Alta California, 1770-1821 by Al Castaneda

 

Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915 by Ellen Sewell

No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1849-1869 by Ida Rae Egli

Testimonios: Early California Through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848 by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California by María Raquél Casas

 

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930 by Eileen Wallis

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Jude Yung

Black History in Early California

 

Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Mark Wild

Blacks in the Gold Rush by Rudolph M. Lapp

Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 by Marne L. Campbell

 

African American Women of the Old West by Tricia Wagner

Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley

Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles by John Mack Faragher

Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California by Quintard Taylor

Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African American Township by Alice C. Royal and Mickey Elinger

 

Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence by Damany M. Fisher

West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line Lynne M. Hudson

Asian and Pacific Islander History in Early California

 

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act by Andrew Gyory

The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch

Alliance Rises in the West: Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California by Charlotte K. Sunseri

 

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H. Chang

Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley by Ceclia M. Tsu

Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong by Elizabeth Sinn

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung

This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 by Sucheng Chang

 

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams

In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire by Eiichiro Azuma

American Indian History in Early California

 

The Fascinating Native-American Involvement in Early California History by Guy Nixon

We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr.

Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers by Kent Lightfoot

 

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 by Steven Hackel

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions by James Sandos

Killing for Land in Early California - Indian Blood at Round Valley by Frank H. Baumgardner III

We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California by Martin Rizzo Martinez

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by Kat Anderson

 

Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan C. Lindsay

Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory by Lee Panich

Spanish and Mexican Periods in Early California

 

Spanish-Mexican families of Early California, 1769-1850 by Marie E. Northrop

Contest for California: From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest by Stephen G. Hyslop

Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Experiment of Southern California, 1771-1877 by George H. Phillips

 

The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico by David J. Weber

Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 by Leonard Pitt and Ramon A. Gutierréz

Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California by Douglas Monroy

The Californios: A History, 1769-1890 by Hunt Jain and Ursula Carlson

Junipero Serra: California Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz

 

The Father of All: The de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California by Louise Pubols

Soldiers, Scoundrels, Poets, and Priests: Stories of Men and Women Behind the Missions of California by David McLaughlin