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4093348California Historical Society Quarterly — Recent California


Recent Caiiforniana

A Check List of Publications Relating to California

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

Alden, Roland H., and Ifft, John D.

Early Naturalists in the Far West (California Academy of Sciences, Occasional Papers, No. XX). San Francisco, 1943. 59 pp., illus. $1.00.

California State Historical Association, comp.

A Partial List of Organizations in California Interested in California History. Second Edition, with Reports of Activities 1935-1940. Los Angeles: The California State Historical Association, 1942. [v] + 127 pp. [Mimeographed.]

Chalfant, W. A.

Tales of the Pioneers. Stanford University: Stanford University Press [1942], vi + 129 pp., illus. $3.00. Stories of the California-Nevada border counties.

Cross, Lilian A.

Sylvan Recollections, a History of the Sylvan District, Sacramento County, California. 1943. 27 pp. [Mimeographed.]

Cummings, G. A., and Pladwell, E. S.

Oakland, a History [Oakland, California: The Grant D. Miller Mortuaries, Inc., 1942], 119 pp., illus.

DeVoto, Bernard

The Year of Decision, 1846. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. xv + [2] + 538 pp. $3.50.

Driggs, Howard R.

Westward America. With Reproductions of Forty Water Color Paintings by William H. Jackson. New York: American Pioneer Trails Association [1942]. x + 312 pp.

Farquhar, Francis P.

A Brief Chronology of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean From Balboa to Capt. Cook's First Voyage 1513 to 1770. San Francisco: [Privately printed at The Grabhorn Press], 1943. 15 pp.

Gerstacker, Friedrich

Scenes of Life in California, translated from the French by George Cosgrave. San Francisco: John Howell [1942]. xiii + 188 pp., illus. $5.00.
A limited edition, printed at the Grabhorn Press, with a foreword by the late Robert E. Cowan.

Giffen, Helen S. and Woodward, Arthur

The Story of El Tejon. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1942. 146 pp., illus. $3.50.

Haskell, Daniel C.

The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 and Its Publications, 1844-1874, a Bibliography. New York: The New York Public Library, 1942. xi + 188 pp., front. (port.) $3.00.

Hawthorne, Hildegarde

California's Missions, Their Romance and Beauty. Illustrated by E. H. Suydam. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942. viii + 237 pp. $5.00.

Howay, F. W.

International Aspects of the Maritime Fur-Trade, from The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada. Third Series, Vol. XXXVI, 1942.

Phillips, Catherine Coffin

Coulterville Chronicle, the Annals of a Mother Lode Mining Town. San Francisco:

The Grabhorn Press, 1942, x + 275 pp., illus. $5.00. Shutes, Milton H.

Lincoln and California. Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press,

1943. xiii + 269 pp., illus. $3.00. U. S. Work Projects Administration

Provo, Pioneer Mormon City . . . Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1942. 223 pp.,

illus. $2.00.

Contains numerous references to Mormon emigration to California. Wilson, Nichols Field

California Business Roll of Honor . . . [Buena Park, California] : Ghost Town News,

1943. 160 pp. 50c.

ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

California Library Association Bulletin

Vol. IV, No. I (September 1942) contains: "Calif orniana, a Basic Reference Collec- tion," by Caroline Wenzel.

Ghost Town News

Vol. II, No. 9 (February 1943) contains: "Grass Valley and Its Traditions," by Ed- mund G. Kinyon.

The Journal of the California State Dental Association

This Journal, of which Dr. Loren B. Taber is editor, for some time past has been publishing articles on early California dentists. Vol. XIX, No. i (January -February 1943) contains: "Dr. Rector Elisha Cole," by Ronald Bailey and A. F. Merriman, Jr. No. 2 (March-April 1943) contains: "A Brief Biography of Dr. Samuel W. Dennis," by Edward Avakoff.No.3 (May-June 1943) contains: "Dr. William John Younger."

New Mexico Historical Review

Vol. XVIII, No. I (January 1943) contains: "The Mexico-California Caravan of 1 847- 1 848," by John Adam Hussey.

Numismatic Revie^v

Vol. I, No. I (June 1943) contains "Unpublished California Goldbars of Hentsch & Berton," by Joseph B. Stack. The magazine will be published quarterly, in New York, by Joseph B. and Morton M. Stack.

The Pacific Historical Review

Vol. XI, No. 4 (December 1942) contains: "The Place of Transportation in the

Early History of the Pacific Northwest," by Oscar Osburn Winther. Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (April 1943) contains: "Pack Animals for Transportation in

the Pacific Northwest," by Oscar Osburn Winther.

Quarterly of Historical Society of Southern California

Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (December 1942) contains: "The Battle of Chino," by George William Beattie, and "Camp Independence, An Owens Valley Outpost," by Helen S. Giffen, Vol. XXV, Nos. 1-2 (March-June 1943) contains: "Pioneer Merchants of Los Angeles, Part II," by Marco R. Newmark.

Yosemite Nature Notes

Vol. XXII, No. 6 (June 1943) contains: "Development of Transportation to Yo- semite," Part I, by C. Frank Brockman.