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Abbott, Mamie. Santa Ines Hermosa: The Journal of the Padre’s Niece. Montecito: Sunwise Press, 1951.

Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Alley, Bowen, & Co., eds. History of Santa Clara County, California. San Francisco: Alley, Bowen & Co, 1881.

Alvarez, J. Leyendas Mexicanas. Spain: Editorial Everest, 1998.

Anderson, Lorraine, ed. Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry About Nature. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Angel, Myron. A Reproduction of Thompson and West’s History of San Luis Obispo County, California. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1966.

Anzaldua, G. Borderlands. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999.

Asbury, H. The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld. Garden City: Garden City, 1933.

Atherton, Gertude. Golden Gate Country. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945.

Austin, Mary. Earth Horizon: Autobiography. New York: The Literary Guild, 1932.

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.

Baker, Joseph. Past and Present of Alameda County, California. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1914.

Bakker, Elna. An Island Called California: An Ecological Introduction to its Natural Communities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Bancroft, Hubert. History of California, Vol. 1: 1542-1800. Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1963.

Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Baudrillard, Jean, and Poster, Mark, ed. Selected Writings. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Beal, Richard. Highway 17: The Road to Santa Cruz. Aptos: The Pacific Group, 1991.

Bean, L., ed. California Indian Shamanism. Santa Barbara: Ballena, 1992.

Bearchell, Charles, and Fried, Larry. The San Fernando Valley: Then and Now. Northridge: Windsor, 1988.

Bennett, Melba. The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Work of Robinson Jeffers. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1966.

Benson, Jackson. John Steinbeck, Writer. New York: Penguin USA., 1990

Birmingham, S. California Rich: The Lives, the Times, the Scandals and the Fortunes of the Men and Women who made and kept California’s Wealth. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.

Bishop, M. St. Francis of Assisi. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1974.

Bookchin, M. The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy. Palo Alto: Cheshire, 1982.

Bookchin, M. The Rise of Urbanization and the Decline of Citizenship. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1987.

Borges, Jorge, and Kerrigan, Anthony, trans. Personal Anthology. New York: Grove, 1983.

Bouvier, Virginia. Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840: Codes of Silence. Tucson: University of Arizona, 2001.

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine, 1968.

Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Brook, J., Carlsson, C., and Peters, N. Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998.

Bronson, W. How to Kill a Golden State. New York: Doubleday, 1968.

Bruchac, Joseph, and Witherup, William, eds. Words from the House of the Dead: Prison Writings from Soledad. Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1974.

Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Campbell, Joseph, and Moyers, Bill. The Power of Myth. New York: Anchor Books, 1991.

Carrico, R. Strangers in a Stolen Land: American Indians in San Diego 1850-1880. San Diego: San Diego State University, 1986.

Casey, E. Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Castillo, Ana, ed. The Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.

Chase, J. California Coastal Trails. Santa Barbara: The Narrative Press, 2001.

Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1991.

Clarke, Thurston. California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas. New York: Ballentine Books, 1996.

Cleland, Robert. The Irvine Ranch. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1984.

Clendinnen, Inga. Aztecs: An Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Clough, Charles. San Juan Bautista: The Town, the Mission & the Park. Fresno: Word Dancer Press, 1996.

Colton, Walter. Three Years in California. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1850.

Columbus, C., and Fuson, R., trans. The Log of Christopher Columbus. Camden: International Marine, 1992.

Costo, R., & Costo, J., eds. The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1987.

Crespí, Juan, and Brown, A., trans. A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770. San Diego: San Diego State Press, 2001

Cuero, Delfina, and Shipek, Florence. Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography, an Account of her Last Years, and her Ethnobotanic Contributions. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1991.

Cunningham, L., ed. Brother Francis: An Anthology of Writings by and about St. Francis of Assisi. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Curtis, Mabel. The Coachman was a Lady. Watsonville: Pajaro Valley Historical Association, 1959.

Dana, Richard. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Darlington, David. In Condor Country: A Portrait of a Landscape, its Denizens, and its Defenders. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.

Dasmann, Raymond. The Destruction of California. New York: Macmillon, 1965.

Davies, Nigel. The Aztecs. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974.

Davis, William. Seventy-Five Years in California. San Francisco: J. Howell, 1929.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London and New York: Verso, 1990.

Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.

Del Castillo, Ana, ed. Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History. Encino: Floricanto Press, 1990.

DeNevi, D., and Moholy, N. Junipero Serra. San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1985.

Didion, Joan The White Album. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Downing, Christine. The Goddess: Mythical Images of the Feminine. New York: Crossroad, 1981.

Eagle, A. Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1992.

Eargle, Dolan. California Indian Country: The Land and the People. San Francisco: Trees Company Press, 1992.

Eisen, J., Fine, D., and Eisen, K., eds. Unknown California. New York: Collier Books, 1985.

Eliot, Marc. Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Fages, Pedro, and Priestley, H., trans. A Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California by Pedro Fages, Written for the Viceroy in 1775. Ramona: Ballena Press, 1972.

Falzarano, Joanna. “The Development of the San Fernando Valley: A History of Natural Resource Issues and Prospects for the Future.” Pepperdine University, February 15, 2003.

Findlay, John. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1992.

Fisher, Andy. Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Fisher, Anne. The Salinas: Upside-Down River. New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporporated, 1945.

Fink, Augusta. Monterey, the Presence of the Past. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1972.

Fogel, Daniel. Junipero Serra, the Vatican, and Enslavement Theology. San Francisco: Ism Press, 1988.

Forbes, Jack. Native Americans of California and Nevada. Happy Camp: Naturegraph Publishers, Inc, 1982.

Freeman, Leslie. Alameda County: Past and Present. San Leandro: Press of the San Leandro Reporter, 1946.

Fry, Patricia. The Ojai Valley: An Illustrated History. Ojai: Matilija Press, 1999.

Futcher, Jane. Marin: The Place, the People, Profile of a California County. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.

Gillis, Mabel. The WPA Guide to California. New York: Pantheon Books, 1939.

Glendinning, Chellis. My Name is Chellis, and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization. Boston: Shambhala, 1994.

Glendinning, Chellis. Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society, 2002.

George, Herbert. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1996.

Green, Julien. God’s Fool: The Life and Times of Francis of Assisi. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985.

Greenwood, Robert. The California Outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez. New York: Arno Press, 1974.

Griffin, Susan. A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

Gutiérrez, Ramón, and Orsi, Richard, eds. Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.

Hageman, Fred, and Ewing, Russell. California’s Mission La Purisima Conception: The Hageman and Ewing Reports. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 1991.

Hale, Dennis, and Eisen, Jonathan, eds. The California Dream. New York: Collier Books, 1968.

Hawley, Walter. The Early Days of Santa Barbara, California: From the First Discoveries by Eeuropeans to December, 1846. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Heritage, 1987.

Hawthorne, Hildegard. Romantic Cities of California. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company Inc, 1939.

Heinberg, Richard. Memories and Visions of Pradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1989.

Heizer, Robert. The Destruction of the California Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974.

Holliday, J. S. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and Houston, James. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Bantam Books, 1973.

Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994.

Jackson, Helen. Ramona. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.

Jackson, Robert, and Castillo, Edward. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Jensen, Derrick, ed. Listening to the Land. New York: Context Books, 2002.

Jeffers, Robinson. Cawdor and Other Poems. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928.

Jeffers, Robinson. Solstice and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1935.

Jeffers, Robinson (1963). The Beginning and the End and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1963.

Jorgenson, Lawrence, and Siegele, Susan, eds. The San Fernando Valley: Past and Present. Los Angeles: Pacific Rim Research, 1982.

Johnson, Marilynn. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1993.

Keegan, Frank. San Rafael: Marin’s Mission City. Northridge: Windsor Publications, 1987.

Kelley, Don. Edge of a Continent: The Pacific Coast from Alaska to Baja. Palo Alto: American West Publishing Company, 1971.

Kidner, David. Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Klein, Norman. The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory. New York: Verso, 1998.

Kling, Rob, Olin, Spencer, and Poster, Mark, eds. Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County since World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Koch, Margaret. Santa Cruz County: Parade of the Past. Fresno: Valley Publishers, 1973.

Kowalewski, Michael, ed. Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration. Berkeley: Heyday Books and the California Council for the Humanities, 1997.

Kraul, Edward, and Beatty, Judith. The Weeping Woman: Encounters with La Llorona. Santa Fe: The Word Process, 1989.

La Perouse, Jean Francois. Life in a California Mission. Berkeley: Heydey Books, 1989.

Lawrence, D.H. The Plumed Serpent. New York: Vintage, 1992.

Lawrence, D.H. “The Spirit of Place.” In The Symbolic Meaning: The Uncollected Versions of Studies in Classic American Literature, edited by Arnold, Amin. New York: Centaur Press, 1961.

Lee, W. Storrs, ed. California: A Literary Chronicle. New York: Funk and Wagnals, 1968.

Le Guin, Ursula. Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York: Grove Press, 1997.

León-Portilla, Miguel. Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.

Leon-Portilla, Miguel, ed. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Levy, Joann. They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. Hamden: Archon Books, 1990.

London, Jack. Jack London’s Golden State. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1999.

Lotchin, Roger. Fortress California: 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Malone, Michael. The Valley of Heart’s Delight: A Silicon Valley Notebook 1963-2001. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Mander, Jerry. In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991.

Margolin, Malcolm, ed. The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, & Reminiscences. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1993.

Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana: An Illustrated History. Encinitas: Heritage Publishing Company, 1994.

Martinez, Al. City of Angels: A Drive-By Portrait of Los Angeles. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Mason, Jack. The Making of Marin, 1850-1975. Inverness: North Shore Books, 1975.

Mayers, Jackson. The San Fernando Valley. Walnut: John D. McIntyre, 1976.

McCaleb, Charles. Surf, Sand and Streetcars: A Mobile History of Santa Cruz, California. Glendale: Interurbans, 1977.

McKeever, Michael. A Short History of San Diego. San Francisco: Lexikos, 1985.

McWilliams, Carey. California: The Great Exception. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939.

McWilliams, Carey. Southern California: An Island on the Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

McWilliams, Carey. The Education of Carey McWilliams. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Merchant, Carol: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.

Merritt, Frank. History of Alameda County, Calilfornia. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1928.

Michaels, Leonard, Reid, David, and Scherr, Raquel, eds. West of the West: Imagining California. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989.

Miller, Bruce. The Chumash: A Picture of Their World. Los Osos: Sand River Press, 1988.

Miller, Bruce. The Gabrielino. Los Osos: Sand River Press, 1991.

Miller, G. Tyler Jr. Living in the Environment. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1975.

Mitchell, John. Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile. Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1984.

Morris, J. Baynard. Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor. New York: W. W. Norton, 1962.

Muir, John. Nature Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1997.

Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harvest, 1963.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. Harvest, 1968.

Murphy, Arnold, ed. A Comprehensive Story of Ventura County, California. Oxnard: M & N Printing, 1979.

Murphy, Celeste. The People of the Pueblo: or, the Story of Sonoma. Portland: Binsfords & Mort, 1948.

Nadeau, Remi. California: The New Society. New York: David McKay, 1963.

Nadeau, Remi. The Real Joaquin Murieta: Robin Hood, Hero, or Gold Rush Gangster? Corona del Mar: Trans-Anglo Books, 1974.

Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969.

Norris, Frank. The Octopus A Story of California. New York: Airmont Publishing Company, Inc, 1969.

North, Arthur. The Mother of California. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1908.

Palóu, Francisco. Life of Junipero Serra. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955.

Parmelee, Robert. Pioneer Sonoma. Sonoma: The Sonoma Index-Tribune, 1972.

Paynes, Stephen. Santa Clara County: Harvest of Change. Northridge: Windsor Publications, 1987.

Perez, Domino Renee. “Caminando con La Llorona.” In Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change, edited by Cantú, Norma, and Nájera-Ramírez, Olga. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Perez, Domino Renee. “Revitalizing the Legend: Manifestations and Cultural Readings of La Llorona in Contemporary Literature and Film.” PhD diss., University of Nebraska, 1999.

Pitt, Leonard. California Controversies: Major Issues in the History of the State. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, Inc, 1987.

Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970.

Pitti, Stephen. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Relations. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Plumwood, Val. Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.

Polk, Dora Beale. The Island of California: A History of the Myth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Quinn, Arthur. Broken Shore: The Marin Peninsula, a Perspective on History. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1981.

Rawls, James. Indians of California: The Changing Image. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.

Rebolledo, Tey Diana. Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature. Tucson/London: The University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Rebolledo, Tey Diana, and Rivero, Eliana, eds. Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature. Phoenix: University of Arizona Press, 1993.

Rieff, David. Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Riesenberg, Felix Jr. The Golden Road: The Story of California’s Spanish Mission Trail. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1962.

Reisner, Marc. A Dangerous Place: California’s Unsettling Fate. New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Rodriguez de Montalvo, Garcia, and Little, William, trans. The Labors of the Very Brave Knight Esplandian. Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992.

Rodriguez, Jeanette. Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Rogers, Everett, and Larsen, Judith. Silicon Valley Fever: Growth of High-Technology Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

Rorabaugh, W. J. Berkeley at War: The 1960s. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Rosenthal, Rob. Homeless in Paradise: A Map of the Terrain. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Rosenus, Alan. General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans. Berkeley: Heyday Press, 1999.

Roszak, Theodore, Gomes, Mary, and Kanner, Allen, eds. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Roszak, Theodore. The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology. Grand Rapids: Phanes, 1992.

Royce, Josiah. California: From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1948.

Ruscin, Terry. Mission Memoirs. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 1999.

Ryden, Kent. Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. Dwellers in the Land. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Sanchez, Cynthia. “‘Blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb’: The Politics of the Representation and Reproduction of the Mythical Mother in New Mexico Cultural Traditions.” PhD diss., New York University, 1998.

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Schrag, Peter. Paradise Lost: California’s Experience, America’s Future. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1999.

Schumacher, E. F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1973.

Schuman, Dovey, ed. Headlines: A History of Santa Barbara from the Pages of its Newspapers, 1855-1982. Santa Barbara: News-Press Publishing Company, 1982.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.

Schmookler, Andrew. Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Shepard, Paul. Coming Home to the Pleistocene. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1998.

Shepard, Paul. Nature and Madness. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Shepard, Paul. Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1978.

Shipek, Florence. Pushed into the Rocks: Southern California Indian Land Tenure, 1769-1986. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

Shiva, Vandana. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology,and Survival in India. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.

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Smith, Barbara. Ghost Stories of California. Renton: Lone Pine, 2000.

Spaulding, Edward. A Brief Story of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara: Pacific Coast Publishing Company, 1964.

Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Starr, Kevin. Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1999-2003. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Starr, Kevin. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Starr, Kevin. Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Starr, Kevin. The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. New York: Penguin USA, 1993.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 1992.

Steinbeck, John. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Stegner, Wallace. Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. New York: Random House, 1992.

Stephanson, Anders. Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

Sully, Langdon, and Bigelow, Taryn. Oceanside: Crest of the Wave. Northridge: Windsor, 1988.

Swan, James, and Swan, Roberta, eds. Dialogs with the Living Earth: New Ideas on the Spirit of Place from Designers, Architects, and Innovators. Wheaton: Quest, 1996.

Synder, Gary. Turtle Island. New York: New Directions, 1974.

Tac, Pablo. Indian Life and Customs at Mission San Luis Rey, Written About 1835. Oceanside: San Luis Rey Mission Indian Foundation, 1998.

Tajnai, Carolyn. “From the Valley of Heart’s Delight to the Silicon Valley: A Study of Stanford University’s Role in the Transformation.” Standford University, 1996.

Terrell, John. The Arrow and the Cross: A History of the American Indian and the Missionaries. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1979.

Thoreau, Henry. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Thomas, Mark. Wielding the Gavel: The Story of the Courts of San Benito County from 1874 through 1994. San Jose: Alma Press, 1996.

Thornton, Bruce. In Search of Joaquin: Myth, Murieta, and History in California. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003.

Tompkins, Walter. Santa Barbara Yesterdays. Santa Barbara: McNally and Loftin, 1962.

Trautman, Baxter. Spirit of the Valley: An Ecological Mythology of an Oak Savanna. Santa Margarita: Black Mountain Press, 1998.

Triem, Judith. Ventura County: Land of Good Fortune. San Luis Obispo: EZ Nature Books, 1990.

Turner, Frederick. Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit against the Wilderness. New York: Viking Press, 1990.

Turner, Jack. The Abstract Wild. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Verardo, Jennie, and Verardo, Denzil. The Salinas Valley: An Illustrated History. Northridge: Windsor Publications, 1989.

Villanueva, Alma. Weeping Woman: La Llorona and Other Stories. Tempe: Bilingual Press, 1994.

Walker, Dale. Bear Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846. New York: Forge, 1999.

Walton, John. Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Wayburn, Cynthia, and Scott, Peter, eds. In the Ocean Wind: The Santa Cruz North Coast. Felton: Glenwood, 1974.

Webb, Edith. Indian Life at the Old Missions. Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1952

Winslow, Ward, ed. The Making of Silicon Valley: One Hundred Year Renaissance. Palo Alto: Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, 1995.

Whitehead, Richard. Citadel on the Channel: The Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, its Founding and Construction, 1782-1798. Santa Barbara and Spokane: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation and The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1996.

Wheelwright, Jane, and Schmidt, Lynda. The Long Shore: A Psychological Experience of the Wilderness. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991.

Wheelwright, Jane. The Ranch Papers. Santa Monica and San Francisco: The Lapis Press, 1988.

Wyatt, David. Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Wyatt, David. The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Young, Stanley, and Levick, Melba. The Missions of California. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.

West of the West