Below is a list of printed primary sources related to colonial and early national California. Additional published primary sources from early California can be found in the volumes of the Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California, the California Historical Society Quarterly, and the Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly.

Colonial  

A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846 - 1847, Daniel Tyler (Glorieta, 1964)

Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831 - 1836, ed. William F. Wagner (Cleveland, 1904)

A Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California by Pedro Fages, Soldier of Spain, Pedro Fages, trans. Herbert Ingram Priestly (Berkeley, 1937)

A New Original Version of Boscana’s Historical Account of the San Juan Capistrano Indians of Southern California, ed. John P. Harrington (Washington, 1934)

Anza’s California Expeditions, ed. and trans. Herbert Eugene Bolton, 5 vols. (Berkeley, 1930)

As the Padres Saw Them: California Indian Life and Customs as Reported by the Franciscan Missionaries, 1813 - 1815, eds. Maynard Geiger and Clement W. Meighan (Santa Barbara, 1976)

Baja Travel Series, ed. Maynard Geiger (Los Angeles, 1970)

The California Gold Discovery, ed. Rodman W. Paul (Georgetown, 1966)

Conversion of the San Luiseños of Alta Califonria, eds. and trans. Minna Hewes and Gordon Hewes (San Luis Rey, 1958)

Diaries and Accounts of the Romero Expeditions in Arizona and California, 1823 - 1826, eds. Lowell Bean and William Mason (Los Angeles, 1962)

Duflot de Mofras’ Travels on the Pacific Cost, ed. Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (Santa Ana, 1937)

The Explorations of William H. Ashley and Jedediah Smith, 1822 - 1829, ed. Harrison Clifford Dale (Glendale, 1941)

Exploring Southwestern Trails, 1846 - 1854, ed. Ralph P. Bieber (Glendale, 1938)

The Gila Trial: The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush by Benjamin Butler Harris, ed. Richard Dillon (Norman, 1960)

Hepah, California: The Jorunal fo Cave Johnson couts from monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los Angeles, California During the Years 1848 - 1849, ed. Henry F. Dobyns (Arizona, 1961)

Historical Memoirs of New California, Francisco Palóu, ed. Herbert Eugene Bolton (Berkeley, 1926)

In California before the Gold Rush, John Bidwell (Los Angeles, 1948)

Journal and Maps of Cave J. Couts, ed. Arthur Ellis (Los Angeles, 1933)

Journal of a Voyage between China and the Northwestern Coast of America, Made in 1804, William Shaler (Claremont, 1935)

The Life and Adventures in California of Agustín Janssens, 1834 - 1856, eds. William Ellison and Francis Price (San Marino, 1953)

Life in California During a Residence of Several Years in that Territory Comprising a Description of the Country and the Missionary Establishments, with Indians, Observations, Etc., Illustrated with Numerous Engravings, Alfred Robinson (New York, 1846)

Mulu’wetam: The First People, Cupeño Oral History and Language, Jane H. Hill and Rosinda Nolaquez (Banning, 1973)

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait in the Years 1825 -1828, F. W. Beechey (London, 1831)

Observations on the Inhabitants of California, 1827 - 1828, trans. John Francis Bricca (Los Angeles, 1952)

The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky, ed. Timothy Flint (Chicago, 1930)

Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Henry R. Wagner (San Francisco, 1929)

 Early National

Account of a Tour of the California Missions, 1856: The journal and Drawings of Henry Miller, Hnery Miller (California, 1952)

A Report of Charles A. Wetmore: Special U.S. Commissioner of Mission Indians of Southern California, Charles A. Wetmore (Washington, 1875)

A Visit to the Mission Indians of Southern California and Other Western Tribes, C. C. Painter (Philadelphia, 1886)

Compiled Laws of the State of California, eds. S. Garfielde and F. A. Snyder (Benicia, 1853)

The Eighteen Unratified Treaties of 1851 - 1852 between the California Indians and the United States Government, ed. Robert F. Heizer (Berkeley, 1972)

Exploring Southwestern Trails, 1846 - 1854, ed. Ralph P. Bieber (Glendale, 1938)

Federal Concern about Conditions of California Indians, 1853 to 1913: Eight Documents, ed. Robert F. Heizer (Socorro, 1979)

The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid’s Letters of 1852, ed. Robert F. Heizer (Los Angeles, 1968)

The Indians of Southern California in 1852, ed. John Walton Caughey (San Marino, 1952)

Journal of Lt. Thomas W. Sweeny, 1849 - 1853, ed. Arthur Woodward (Los Angeles, 1956)

Personal Narrative of the Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, John Russell Bartlett, 2 vols. (New York, 1854)

Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849 - 1875, ed. Majorie Tisdale Wolcott (Los Angeles, 1929)

The Present Condition of the Mission Indians, C. C. Painter (Philadelphia, 1887)

Reminiscences of a Ranger or Early Times in Southern California, Horace Bell (Los Angeles, 1881)

Report of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson and Abbot Kinney on the Mission Indians in 1883, Helen Hunt Jackson and Abbot Kinney (Boston, 1887)

The Romance of the Age; or, The Discovery of Gold in California, Edward E. Dunbar (New York, 1867)

Seventy-five Years in California, William heath Davis (San Francisco, 1929)

Shoshonean Days: Recollectiosn of a Residence of Five Years Among the Indians of Southern California, 1885 - 1889, Hazen G. Shinn (Glendale, 1941)

Some Last Century Accounts of the Indians of Southern California, ed. Robert F. Heizer (Ramona, 1976)