• Fiction
  • The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain
  • The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
  • Stories of Virginia City, Nevada by Dan De Quille
• Narrative
  • The Californian Gold District - Kanaha Bar
  • Dutch Flat - History and early newspaper articles
  • The First Official Report of the Discovery of Gold in California
  • Gold Rush Diary of Eugene Ring, 1848-1850
  • James W. Marshall's account of the first discovery of Gold
  • Scenes at the Gold Diggings
  • Capt. Sutter's account of the first discovery of the Gold
  • Rambles in California
• Humorous
  • Commandments to California Wives
  • The Days of ‘49: A Popular Song of Pioneer Times in California
  • The Honest Miner‘s Songs
  • The Miners' Ten Commandments

• Stories, Studies, & Observations
  • Adventures of Wells Fargo: Black Bart, Stagecoaches, and the like
  • A Gold Fever Experience by Timothy McNulty
  • Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone
  • No Place for a Woman? by Patricia Cronin Marcello
  • They Came to See an Elephant: A Historical Archeology Project by John Polos.

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