Tuthill--History of California. Foster--The Gold Regions of California. Stillman--Seeking the Golden Fleece. Taylor--El Dorado. Delano--Life on the Plains. Shinn--Mining Camps. Brooks--Four Months Among the Gold Finders. Johnson--Sights in the Gold Region and Scenes by the Way. Bostwicks--Three Years in California. Shaw--Ramblings in California. Hittell--History of San Francisco. Bates--Four Years on the Pacific Coast. Taylor--California Life Illustrated. Marryatt--Mountains and Molehills. James--The Heroes of California. Hunt--California the Golden. Haskins--The Argonauts of California. Bell--Reminiscences of a Ranger. Royce--California. Eldredge--Beginnings of San Francisco. Langford--Vigilante Days and Ways. The author desires further to announce that, provided nothing interferes, he hopes to supplement this novel with two others. They also will deal with early days, and will be entitled _The Gray Dawn_, and _The Rose Dawn_.