Bibliography and Links
Related Publications (nonfiction):
Rose Marie Beebe, Rose Mar, and Robert M. Senkewich, eds. Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (2001).
Tom Chaffin. Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire (2002).
O.W. Frost. Bering: The Russian Discovery of America (2003).
Ramón Gutiérrez and Richard Orsi, eds. Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (1997).
Albert L. Hurtado. Indian Survival in a California Frontier (1988).
Robert H. Jackson and Edward Castillo. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization:
The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians (1995).
Lyn Kalani and Sarah Sweeder. Fort Ross and the Sonoma Coast. Arcadia, 2004.
David Roberts. A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West (2000).
The Russian American Colonies, 1798-1867: A Documentary Record (1989).
James A. Sandos. Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in Missions (2004).
David Weber. The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992).
Web / Multimedia Suggestions:
California Missions
http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/index.html
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/missionsites/index.html
http://www.goldenstateimages.com/GSI_search.php?srch=san%20diego%20mission&op=ph
Photo Father Junipero
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/jserra.html
Fort Ross State Historic Park
http://www.mcn.org/1/rrparks/fortross/
History of the Russian Settlement at Fort Ross
http://www.parks.sonoma.net/rosshist.html
Fort Ross Interpretative Association
http://www.fortrossinterpretive.org/
Explorers and Fur Trappers
http://www.trailblazers101.com/fur1.htm
Terminology links:
Aleuts
http://www.amiq.org/aleuts.html
Alta California
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/rancho.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbmexico.html
Bodega Bay
http://www.bodegabay.com/
California Missions
http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/index.html
Californios
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/california.html
Franciscan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan
http://www.franciscan-brothers.net/
Kashaya band
http://www.fortrossstatepark.org/firstpeople.htm
Mountain Men
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/HNS/Mtmen/home.html
Pacific Fur Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fur_Company
Presidio
http://www.californiahistory.net/span_frame_presidios.htm
http://ca-missions.org/honig.html
Sea otters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_otter
John Sutter
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html
Treaty of Cordoba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_C%C3%B3rdoba