References & Resources

• The California Indians – Quarries & Quarrying
• The Missions & Spanish, Rancho Era – California Quarrying During this Time Period
• Era of American and Foreign Incursion through 1914
• Geology, Stone, the California Building Industry, & Building Construction
• General California History

The California Indians – Quarries & Quarrying

•  “Aboriginal Quarries – Soapstone Bowls and the Tools Used in Their Manufacture,” by J. D. McGuire, June 1883, in The American Naturalist, Vol. 17, Essex Institute, American Society of Naturalists, 1883, pp.  587-595.  (Keywords:  Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California)
• “Aboriginal Society in Southern California,” W. D. Strong, University of California Publications, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 26, 1929.
• “Aboriginal Stone Drilling, C. Rau, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report 1868, 1869, pp. 392-400.
• “Aboriginal Trade Between the Southwest and California,” R. F. Heizer, Southwest Museum Masterkey, Vol. 15, 1941, pp. 185-188.
• Aboriginal Turquoise Mining in Arizona and New Mexico, W. P. Blake, American Cantiquarian, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1899.
• An Isle of Summer:  Santa Catalina:  Its History, Climate, Sports and Antiquities, by Charles Frederick Holder, R. Y. McBride, 1901,  91 pp.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• “Ancient Olla Manufactory on Santa Catalina Island, California,” P. Schumacher, American Naturalist, Vol. 12, 1878, pp. 629.
• “Ancient Salt Mine Near St. Thomas, Nevada,” M. R. Harrington, Heye Foundation, Museum of American Indian, Indian Notes, Vol. 2, 1925, pp. 227-231.
• “Another Ancient Salt Mine in Nevada,” M. R. Harrington, Heye Foundation, Museum of American Indian, Indian Notes, 1926, pp. 221-232.
• “Anthropological Studies in California,” W. H. Holmes, U. S. National Museum, Annual Report 1900, 1902, pp. 155-187.
• Archeological Investigations at Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, California, W. R. Wedel, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 130, 1941.
• “Archeological Notes on a Midden at Point Sal,” G. F. Carter, American Antiquity, Vol. 6, pp. 214-226.
• “Archeological Reconnaissance of Southeastern California and Northeastern Baja California,” A. E. Treganza, American Antiquity, Vol. 8, 1942, pp. 152-163.
• Archeological Survey of Round Valley and Adjacent Drainage, (unpublished manuscript, M.S., no date), by A. E. Treganza, C. E. Smith, and W. D. Weymouth.
• “Building California:  Technology and the Landscape,” past exhibit of the California Historical Society, May 6 – August 15, 1998.
• California: A History of Upper and Lower California, Alexander Forbes, Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, London, 1839.
• California Mission Clash of Cultures, on Wikipedia
• “A California Verde Antique Quarry” (pdf), by Prof. Charles F. Holder in the Scientific American, Vol. LXXXI, No. 25, December 16, 1899, pp. 393-394.  (Keywords:  Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California)
• Catalina – Before Modern History:  Archaeologists scour the Island for answers, by Linda Farley, Manager Conservation Operations, Catalina Island Conservancy, August 1, 2011, Online Newsletter.  (Photo caption:  “Here, Rich Zanelli, the Conservancy’s School Programs Specialist, introduces youngsters to the Soapstone Quarry near the Airport in the Sky.  Simply follow the Soapstone Quarry Trail, a short, easy walk, that begins at the junction of the Airport Road and El Rancho Escondido Road.”)
• “Certain Artifacts from San Miguel Island,” G. G. Heye, Heye Foundation, Museum of American Indian, Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1921.
• “The Chemical Industries of the American Aborigines,” C. A. Browne, Isis, Vol. 23, 1935, pp. 406-424.
• Clear Lake Pomo Society, E. W. Gifford, University of California Publications, Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1926.
• Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands, California, by Jeanne E. Arnold, Volume 18 of University of California publications in anthropology, University of California Press, 1987, 278 pp., ISBN 0520097262, 9780520097261.  (This book is available on Google Books.)
• “Culture Element Distributions,” E. W. Gifford and A. L. Kroeber, IV, Pomo, University of California Publications, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1937.
• “Desert Indian Wells,” E. F. Walker, Southwest Museum Masterkey, Vol. 12, 1938, pp. 110-112.
• “Desert Indian Well (at Torres),” Anonymous, Southwest Museum Masterkey, Los Angeles, Vol. 13, 1939, pp. 152. 
• “The Early Mission Establishments in California” (pdf), in Scientific American, Vol. LXIII, No. 8, August 23, 1890, pp. 118.  (includes engravings of Santa Barbara Mission, Mission Santa Inez, and Mission San Luis Obispo)
• The Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California, D. P. Barrows, 1900.
• “Ethnology of the Cahuilla Indians,” A. L. Kroeber, University of California Publications, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1908.
• “The Ethnogeography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians,” S. A. Barrett, University of California Publications, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 6, 1908.  (The text from this book is available at the University of California Calisphere and on Google Books - Full View Books.)
• Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities:  The Lithic Industries, W. H. Holmes, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30, Part 1, 1919.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• Handbook of the Indians of California, A. L. Kroeber, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 78, 1925.
• “Historical Notes on Gem Mining,” S. H. Ball, Economic Geology, Vol. 26, 1931, pp. 681-738.
• History of California, The Native Races, Vol. II.  1801-1824  The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft,  Vol. XIX, San Francisco:  History Publishing Co., 1885.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.) 
• History of California to 1899, on Wikipedia
• “History of Santa Catalina Island,” by Mrs. M. Burton Williamson (read Dec. 7, 1903) in the Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 6, by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California, 1904, pp. 14-31.   (Keywords:  Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California) (Indian serpentine & soapstone quarries), pp. 25 et al.
• “Indian Beliefs Concerning Earthquakes,” A. L. Kroeber, Journal American Folklore, Vol. 19, 1906, pp. 322-323.
• “Indian Quarries for Vessels of Soapstone,” Friends Review, A Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Journal, Edited by James E. Rhoads, Vol. 32, 1878-79, Philadelphia, pp. 93-94. (Keywords:  California Indians) (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• “Indian Quarries for Vessels of Soapstone,” Friends’ Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, James E. Rhoades, editor, Vol. XXXII., Philadelphia, 1878-1879, pp. 93-94.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• Indian Reductions, on Wikipedia
  

  “Reductions (known as Reducciones de Indios, or simply Reducciones in Spanish; also Congregaciones) were settlements founded by the Spanish colonizers of the New World with the purpose of assimilating indigenous populations into European culture and religion.”

• The Indian Sentinel, Vol. 2, by the Society for the Preservation of the Faith Among Indian Children, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, 1920, 586 pp.  (Keywords:  Mission priest and Indian mason) (pp. 463 a 1923 letter from the priest about an Indian mason building a stone building.)
• Indians of California: The Changing Image, James J. Rawls, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1984, ISBN 0-8061-2020-7.
• “Indians of the Far West,” in The Illustrated London News, Vol. XXXII, No. 913, Saturday, April 17, 1858, pp. 400-401.

• The Kamia of Imperial Valley, E. W. Gifford, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 97, 1931.
• “Long Lost Mines of Precious Gems are Found Again,” G. Eisen, San Francisco Call (newspaper), March 18, 1927.
• “Luck Stones Among the Yana,” H. N. Rust and A. L. Kroeber, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 21, 1908, pp. 42.
• “Materials, Apparatus, and Processes of the Aboriginal Lapidary,” J. D. McGuire, American Anthropology, o.s., Vol. 5, 1892, pp. 165-176.
• “The Method of Manufacture of Soapstone Pots,” P. Schumacher, U. S. Geological Survey, W. 10th Mer. Report, Vol. VII, Archeology, pp. 117-121.  (Also published in Peabody Museum Reports, Vol. 2, 1880, pp. 260-264.)
• The Method of Manufacturing Pottery and Baskets Among the Indians of Southern California, P. Schumacher, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, Annual Report 12, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1880.
• Miwok Material Culture, S. A. Barrett and E. W. Gifford, Public Museum City of Milwaukee Bulleting, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1933.
• “Mines and Quarries of the American Indians,” W. H. Holmes, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, Pt. 1, 1907, pp. 864-867.  (Washington)
• “Mines and Quarries of the Indians of California,” by Robert F. Heizer (former research Associate in Anthropology, University of California) and Adan E. Treganza (Former preparatory, Museum of Anthropology, University of California), California Division of Mines, Vol. 40, No. 3, July 1944, pp. 291-359.
• Mines and Quarries of the Indians of California, by Robert F. Heizer and Adan E. Treganza, Ramona, California: Ballena Press, 1972, pp.  291-350.
• The Mining of Gems and Ornamental Stones by American Indians, S. H. Ball, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 128, Authrop. Paper 13, 1941.
• Native Americans in the United States, on Wikipedia
• The Native Races, Vol. 1.  Wild Tribes, Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, San Francisco:  History Publishing Co., 1886.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.) 
• The Natural World of the California Indians, Volume 46 of California natural history guides, by Robert Fleming Heizer and Albert B. Elsasser, photographs by Albert B. Elsasser University of California Press, 271 pp., 1980ISBN0520038967, 9780520038967.  (“This information-packed guide describes patterns of village life, and covers such subjects as Indian tools and artifacts, hunting techniques, and food.” This book is available on Google Books.)  (Keywords:  Indian soapstone dishes)
• The Northern Maidu, R. B. Dixon, American Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Vol. 17, Pt. 3, 1905.
• “The Northfork Mono,” E. W. Gifford, University of California Publication, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1932.
• “On the Depression of the Colorado Basin,” G. E. Gray, California Academy of Science, Pr., Vol. 4, 1873, pp. 228-230.
• Order of Development of the Primal Stone Shaping Arts, W. H. Holmes, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report 1901, 1902.
• The Patwin and Their Neighbors, A. L. Kroeber, University of California Publication, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 29, No. 4, 1932.
• “The Physical Properties of Stone Tool Materials,” M. E. Goodman, American Antiquity, Vol. 4, 1944, pp. 415-433.
• “Pomo Lands on Clear Lake,” E. W. Gifford, University of California Publications, Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 20, 1923, pp. 77-94.
• The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970, Sherburne F. Cook, Ph.D., University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1976, ISBN 0-520-02923-2.
• Prehistoric Mining in the Southwest, K. Bartlett, Museum of Northern Arizona, Notes, Vol. 7, Flagstaff, 1935.
• “Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production,” By Jonathon E. Ericson, Barbara A. Purdy, Cambridge University Press, 1984, Social Science, 149 pp.  (Parts of this book are available on Google Books)
• “A prehistoric stone quarry exhibit from the Indian Arts Building (photo courtesy of the Museum of Man)” (photograph caption), from “The Southwest on Display at the Panama-California Exposition, 1915,” in The Journal of San Diego History, San Diego Historical Society Quarterly, Fall 1990, Volume 36, Number 4, Richard W. Crawford, Editor, pp. 202.  (Depicts two Indians cutting into a block of stone.)
• “Preparation of Acorn Meal by Pomo Indians,” J. W. Hudson, American Anthropology, n.s., Vol. 2, 1900, pp. 775-776.
• “A Prehistoric Soapstone Quarry,” E. F. Walker, Southwest Museum Masterkey, Vol. 6, 1935, pp. 178-180.
• “The Quicksilver Mine of New Almaden,” S. A. Downer, The Pioneer, Vol. 2, 1854, pp. 220-228.
• Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California, Clare Vernon McKanna, University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada, 2002, ISBN 0-87417-515-1.
• “Santa Catalina Island,” G. C. Randolph, The Mineralogist, Vol. 3, No. 8, 1935, pp. 7-8.
• Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast, California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 4, 1929, San Francisco.
• Springs of California, G. A. Waring, U. S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 338, 1915.
• Study of the Primitive Methods of Drilling, J. D. McGuire, U. S. National Museum, Annual Report, 1894, 1896.
• A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1910, Randall Milliken, Ballena Press Publication, Menlo Park, CA, 1995, ISBN 0-87919-132-5.
• “Toro Reservation, Indian Wells,” C. P. Baldwin, Southwest Museum Masterkey, Vol. 12, 1938, pp. 151-153.
• Tribes of California, S. Powers, Central North American Ethnology, Vol. 3, 1877.
• “The Walla Walla Indian Expeditions to the Sacramento Valley 1846-1848, R. F. Heizer, California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1942, pp. 1-7.
• The Way We Lived:  California Indian Stories, Songs & Remembrances, Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books, Berkeley, California, 1993, ISBN 0-93058-855-X.
• “The Wells of the Ancient Coahuillas, J. Hilton, Westways, March, 1936.
• “Wintu Ethnology,” C. Dubois, University of California Publication, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 36, No. 1, 1935.
• Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (1882-1890) (This link provides you with a list of all editions of Bancroft’s works available on Google Books – Full View Books)
• A World Transformed:  Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush, by Joshua Paddison, Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA 1999, ISBN 1-890771-13-9.
• Yokus and Western Mono Pottery-Making, A. Gayton, University of California Publications, American Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1929.
• Yuman Pottery Making, M. J. Rogers, San Diego Museum Papers, No. 2, 1936.

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The Missions & Spanish, Rancho Era

California Quarrying During this Time Period

• Album of Views of the Missions of California, Souvenir Publishing Company, San Francisco, Los Angeles, 1890’s.
• The Appeal of the Stones at San Juan Capistrano, by Hugh O'Reilly.
• The Architectural History of Mission San Carlos Borromeo, California, Frances Rand Smith, California Historical Survey Commission, Berkeley, CA, 1921.
• Architecture of the California Missions, on Wikipedia
• Architecture of the California Missions, Kurt Baer, University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1958.
• “Building California:  Technology and the Landscape,” past exhibit of the California Historical Society, May 6 - August 15, 1998.
• California: A History of Upper and Lower California, Alexander Forbes, Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, London, 1839.
• California from the Conquistadores to the Legends of Laguna, Roger W. Jones, Rockledge Enterprises, Laguna Hills, California, 1997.
• California Fur Rush, on Wikipedia
• California Hide Trade, on Wikipedia
• California Mission Clash of Cultures, on Wikipedia
• California Mission Resource Center
• The California Missions
• California Missions
• California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Mission Randy Leffingwell, Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN, 2005, ISBN 0-89658-492-5.
• California Missions Foundation
• California Missions On-Line Project
• California Missions Studies Association
• The California Missions: A Pictorial History, Dorothy Krell (ed.), Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA, ISBN 0-376-05172-8.
• The California Padres and Their Missions, Charles Francis Saunders and J. Smeaton Chase, Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1915.
• California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity, Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.), Altimira Press, Landham, MD, 2007, ISBN 0-759-10872-2.
• Californio, on Wikipedia

  “Californio (historic and regional Spanish for ‘Californian’) is a term used to identify a Californian regardless of race, during the period that California was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and governed from Mexico City. The United States annexed the territory of California in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War.”

• California’s Missions, R. Wright, Hubert A. and Martha H. Lowman, Arroyo Grande, CA, 1950.
• California’s Spanish Missions
• Carmel Mission (AKA Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo), on Wikipedia
• Church of Saint Rafael and Mission San Rafael Arcangel
• Colonial Architecture in California:  Distinctive Features of the Mission Architecture
• Colonial Rosary:  The Spanish and Indian Missions of California, by Alison Lake, Ohio University Press, 2006, 244 pp., ISBN0804010846, 9780804010849. (Parts of this book are available on Google Books.)
• Common Terms of the California Missions, on the California Missions Resource Center web site.
  
• A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law, in Relation to Mines, and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California, Texas and New Mexico:  and in the territories acquired under the Louisiana and Florida treaties, when annexed to the United States. Containing a translation of the mining ordinances of New Spain, Gamboa’s mining ordinances, the laws in relation to mines of gold, silver and quicksilver, contained in the “Novisma recopilacion,” and the “Recopilacion de las Indias,” and in the decrees of the cortes of Spain and of Ferdinand VII, also of the laws and decrees of Mexico, on the subject of mines, colonization, and the right of foreigners to hold real estate: also, extracts from public documents, and form the laws of California, in relation to mines and mineral lands, together with a digest of the common law, on the subject of mines and mining, Volume 1, A compilation of Spanish and Mexican law, in relation to mines, and titles to real estate, in force in California, Texas and New Mexico: and in the territories acquired under the Louisiana and Florida treaties, when annexed to the United States. Containing a translation of the mining..., Vol. 1, compiled by John Arnold Rockwell, published by John S. Voorhies, 1851, 663 pp.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period, Hugh Morrison, Dover Publications, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-48625-492-5.
• Early California History – the Missions, American Memory Project, Library of Congress
• Early History of the California Coast, presented by the National Park Service.
• “The Early Mission Establishments in California” (pdf), in Scientific American, Vol. LXIII, No. 8, August 23, 1890, pp. 118.  (includes engravings of Santa Barbara Mission, Mission Santa Inez, and Mission San Luis Obispo)
• The First Angelinos:  The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles, William McCawley, Malki Museum Press and Ballena Press, Banning and Novato, CA, 2006, ISBN 0965101614.
• For God & Tsar: A Brief History of Russian America 1741–1867, David J. Nordlander, Alaska Natural History Association, Anchorage, AK, 1994, ISBN 0-930931-15-7.
• Fort Ross, California, on Wikipedia
• Fort Ross State Historic Park
• The Franciscan Mission Architecture of AltaCalifornia, Rexford Newcomb, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1973, ISBN 0-486-21740-X.
• Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848:  A Biographical Dictionary, Maynard J. Geiger, O.F.M., Ph.D., Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1969.
• The Golden Road: The Story of California’s Spanish Mission Trail, Felix Riesenberg, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1962.
• History of California, Volume II (1801-1894) , Hubert Howe Bancroft, The History Company, San Francisco, California, 1886.
• History of California to 1899, on Wikipedia
• A History of California; The Spanish Period, Charles E. Chapman, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1921.
• La Purísima Concepción Mission, on Wikipedia
• La Purisima Mission State Park
• Maritime Fur Trade, on Wikipedia
• Mission Dolores Mission San Francisco de Asís, on Wikipedia
• “Mission Dolores – The Cemeteries Now Ready to Be Transferred to the City,” San Francisco Morning Call, June 8, 1889.
• “Mission Dolores Links San Francisco with its 18th Century Roots - Founded as La Mission San Francisco De Asis,” by Franciscans, Brother Guire Cleary, it survived earthquake and fire,” Catholic San Francisco, January 31, 2003.
• Mission La Purísima Concepción, on Wikipedia
• Mission La Purisima, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission Memoirs, Terry Ruscin, Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, 1999, ISBN 0-932653-30-8.
• Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, on Wikipedia
• Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, California Missions On-Line Project
• “A Mission Record of the California Indians,” Alfred L. Kroeber, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8 (1): 1–27, 1908.
• Mission San Antonio de Padua, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Antonio de Padua, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Buenaventura, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Buenaventura, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo (AKA Carmel Mission), on Wikipedia
• Mission San Carlos de Borromeo de Carmel, California Mission On-Line Project
• Mission San Diego de Alcala, the California Mission On-line Project
• Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores)
• Mission San Francisco de Assis, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Fernando Rey de España, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma
• Mission San Francisco Solano, in Sonoma, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Francisco Solano, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, Zephynin Engelhardt, Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, IL, 1931.
• Mission San Jose, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Jose, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Juan Bautista, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Juan Batista, California Mission On-Line Project
• Mission San Juan Capistrano, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Juan Capistrano, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Juan Capistrano: A Pocket History, H. Kelsey, Interdisciplinary Research, Inc., Altadena, California, 1993.
• Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
• Mission San Miguel Arcángel, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Rafael Arcangel
• Mission San Rafael Arcángel, on Wikipedia
• Mission San Rafael Arcangel, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission Santa Barbara, on Wikipedia
• Mission Santa Barbara, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission Santa Barbara, presented by John Dickson
• Mission Santa Clara de Asís, in Santa Clara, on Wikipedia
• Mission Santa Clara, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission Santa Cruz, in Santa Cruz, on Wikipedia
• Mission Santa Cruz, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission Santa Inés
• Mission Santa Inés, on Wikipedia
• Mission Santa Ines, California Missions On-Line Project
• Mission Tour:  A Virtual Tour of the California Missions
• “Mission Trail Today – The California Missions,” presented by Kenneth A. Larson  (includes many photographs of the California missions)
• The Missions and Missionaries of California, Volume One, Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., The James H. Barry Co., San Francisco, California, 1908.
• The Missions of California (pdf), by Eugene Leslie Smyth, Chicago: Alexander Belford & Co., 1899.

• The Missions of California, Bill Yenne, Advantage Publishers Group, San Diego, CA, 2004, ISBN 1-59223-319-8.
• The Missions of California, S. Young and M. Levick, Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, CA, 1988, ISBN 0-8118-3694-0.
• Native Californians:  A Theoretical Perspective, Lowell John Bean and Harry Lawgon, Ballena Press, Banning, California, 1976.
• Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Mission, on Wikipedia
• Nuestra Senora de la Soledad Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• “Oldest Irrigation Conduit and Dam in the United States” (pdf) (old San Diego Mission Dam), in Engineering News, Vol. 75, No. 7, February 17, 1916, pp. 297-298. (This article is about the old San Diego Mission Dam.  The old San Diego Mission dam was constructed across the head of Mission Gorge and was completed by 1815.  The dam was constructed of stone and cement on exposed bedrock.)
• Old Mission San Juan Capistrano, California (booklet), Curt Teich & Co. Inc., Chicago, Illinois.

• Pious Fund of the California, on Wikipedia
• “The Pious Fund of the Californias,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911.
• Rancho Cañada Larga o Verde, Ventura, California, on Wikipedia

  “Rancho Cañada Larga o Verde was a 6,659-acre (26.95 km) Mexican land grant in present day Ventura County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Joaquina Alvarado.  The grant extended along Sulphur Canyon Creek, east of the Ventura River, between Ventura and Ojai. To the west, across the Ventura River was Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito; to the north Rancho Ojai; and to the south and east Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura.”

• Ranchos of California, on Wikipedia
  • List of Ranchos of California, on Wikipedia
• Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art, Jean Stem and Gerald J. Miller, The Irvine Museum, Irvine, California. ISBN 0-9635468-5-6, 1995.
• Russian Colonization of the Americas, on Wikipedia
• San Antonio de Padua Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Antonio de Padua Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Buenaventura Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Buenaventura Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct, on Wikipedia
• San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey
• San Carlos de Borromeo de Carmel Mission, California Mission On-Line Project
• San Diego de Alcalá Mission (San Diego Mission – official web site)
• San Diego Mission, Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., James H. Barry Company, San Francisco, CA, 1920.
• San Diego Mission - Basilica San Diego de Alcalá Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Diego de Alcala Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
  
• San Diego Mission, Zephyrin Engelhardt, James H. Barry Company, San Francisco, CA, 1920.
• San Fernando Rey de España Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Fernando Rey de Espana Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Francisco de Assis Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Francisco de Asís Mission (Mission Dolores), in San Francisco, on Wikipedia
• San Francisco or Mission Dolores, Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M.  Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, IL, 1924.
• San Francisco Solano Mission, in Sonoma, on Wikipedia
• San Francisco Solano Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Gabriel Arcángel Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Gabriel Arcangel Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San José Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Jose Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Jose Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Juan Bautista Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Juan Batista Mission, California Mission On-Line Project
• San Juan Capistrano Mission, American Society of Civil Engineers, Orange County, California Branch
• San Juan Capistrano Mission, Zephyrin, Engelhardt, O.F.M., Standard Printing Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1922.
• San Juan Capistrano Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Juan Capistrano Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• San Luis Rey de Francia Mission
• San Luis Rey de Francia Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Luis Rey de Francia Mission
• San Miguel Arcángel Mission, on Wikipedia
• San Miguel Arcangel Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• Santa Barbara Mission, on Wikipedia
• Santa Barbara Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• Santa Barbara Mission, presented by John Dickson
• Santa Clara de Asís Mission, in Santa Clara, on Wikipedia
• Santa Clara Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• Santa Cruz Mission, in Santa Cruz, on Wikipedia
• Santa Cruz Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• Santa Inés Mission
• Santa Inés Mission, on Wikipedia
• Santa Ines Mission, California Missions On-Line Project
• “Should the California Missions Be Preserved? - Part I,” John E. Bennet, Overland Monthly XXIX (169): 9–24, January 1897a.
• “Should the California Missions Be Preserved? - Part II,” John E. Bennet, Overland Monthly XXIX (170): 150-161, February 1897b.
• Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture, on Wikipedia
• Spanish Colonization of the Americas, on Wikipedia
• Spanish Missions in Baja California, on Wikipedia
• Spanish Missions of California, on Wikipedia
• The Spanish Missions of California:  A resource web site for teachers and students in their study of the California missions, by Tricia Anne Weber
• Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast, California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 4, 1929 (San Francisco).
• “The Stanfords and the Serra Statue at the Presidio Monterey”(pdf), by Dorothy Regnery, in Sandstone and Tile, Stanford Historical Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1989, pp. 2-5.
• U. S. Mission Trail:  The Mission Trail Today, Spanish Missions in the United States, presented by Kenneth A. Larson
• The Vallejo Flour Mill, on Wikipedia

  “The Vallejo Flour Mill in Fremont, California, was built in 1850 by José de Jesús Vallejo, elder brother of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo on his Rancho Arroyo de la Alameda.  A second flour mill was built in 1856, the stone foundation of which may still be seen today.

  “The town of Niles, California (now part of Fremont, California) was once called Vallejo Mills, after the Flour Mill. The stone aqueduct built to carry water for the mill parallels Niles Canyon Road (State Route 84) . The mill is located at the intersection of Niles Canyon Road and Mission Boulevard (State Route 238) in Vallejo Mill Historical Park and is a California Historical Landmark (#46).”

• A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush, by Joshua Paddison, Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA 1999, ISBN 1-890771-13-9.

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Era of American and Foreign Incursion through 1914

• “Building California:  Technology and the Landscape,” past exhibit of the California Historical Society, May 6 - August 15, 1998.
• California Hide Trade, on Wikipedia
• Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period, Hugh Morrison, Dover Publications, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-48625-492-5.
• Fall Creek/I. X. L. Lime Company/ Henry Cowell Lime Kilns (history and photographs) on the Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.
• Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 – Sierran Gold Belt, The Mother Lode Country, (Centennial Edition), California Division of Mines Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco:  September 1948.
• Geologic Guidebook of The San Francisco Bay Counties:  History, Landscape, Geology, Fossils, Minerals, Industry, and Routes to Travel, California Division of Mines Bulletin 154, Prepared under the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco, December 1951.
• History of California:  1860-1890, Vol. 7, in the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Hubert Howe Bancroft, et al., Vol. 14, The History Company, 1890.  (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books.)
• History of California to 1899, on Wikipedia
• Lime Kilns, on Wikipedia
• Mediterranean Revival Style Architecture, on Wikipedia
• Mission Revival Style Architecture, on Wikipedia
• Olema Lime Kilns, on Wikipedia
• Olema Lime Kilns, List of Classified Structures, National Park Service
  
• “Olema Lime Kilns Near Olema,” by Adan E. Treganza, Assist Professor of Anthropology, San Francisco State College, Geologic Guidebook of The San Francisco Bay Counties:  History, Landscape, Geology, Fossils, Minerals, Industry, and Routes to Travel, California Division of Mines Bulletin 154, Prepared under the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco, December 1951.  (The “Olema Lime Kilns Near Olema” article is available on the Stone Quarries and Beyond web site.)
• Pueblo Revival Style Architecture, on Wikipedia
• Revival Style Architecture (Images), on Wikipedia
• Revivalism (Architecture), on Wikipedia
• Spanish Colonial Revival Style Architecture, on Wikipedia
• Spanish Revival Architecture in California, on Wikipedia
• United States Court of Private Land Claims (includes California), on Wikipedia
• Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (1882-1890)  (This link provides you with a list of all editions of Bancroft’s works available on Google Books – Full View Books)

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Geology, Stone, the California Building Industry, &

Building Construction

• The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock Quarrying Methods in Pre-industrial New England, 1630-1825, by Mary Elaine Gage and J. E. Gage, Powwow River Books, 2005, 88 pp., ISBN 0971791023, 9780971791022.
• The Architect’s Handbook of Marble, Granite, and Stone, Vol. I, Technical Guide, Enrico Corbella, Illustrations by Renato Zini, New York:  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990, 164 pp.
• Building Materials of the California Gold Country:  A Selective Photographic Tour From Mariposa in Mariposa County to Auburn in Placer County (based on the) Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49, Sierra Gold Belt, The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, (Centennial Edition), California Department of Mines, 1948.
• “The Building Stones of America,” in the American Architect and Building News Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 454, September 6, 1884, pp. 113-114. (This article is available on Google Books.)
• “The Mineral Wealth of California,” in California:  Its Products, Resources, and Industries and Attractions, What it offers the immigrant, homeseeker, investor and tourist, published by the California Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission in 1904, pp. 32- 33, 40. (This book is available on Google Books - Full View Books.)
• “A California Verde Antique Quarry”(pdf), by Prof. Charles F. Holder in the Scientific American, Vol. LXXXI, No. 25, December 16, 1899, pp. 393-394.  (Keywords:  Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California)
• Dimension Stone Cladding: Design, Construction, Evaluation, and Repair, ASTM International, December 1, 2000, 190 pp., ISBN-10: 0803128754, ISBN-13: 978-0803128750.
• Field-Trip Guide to the Southeastern Foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California (pdf), U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-121, 2002, By Philip W. Stoffer and Paula Messina, pp. 13.  (Keywords:  Calera, or calero, Spanish word for a limestone quarry (or lime kiln);  Mutsun Ohlone Indians; bedrock mortars:  stone bowls used with a pestle.)
• Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 – Sierran Gold Belt, The Mother Lode Country, (Centennial Edition), California Division of Mines Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco:  September 1948.
• Geologic Guidebook of The San Francisco Bay Counties:  History, Landscape, Geology, Fossils, Minerals, Industry, and Routes to Travel, California Division of Mines Bulletin 154, Prepared under the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco, December 1951.
• “Gems and Previous Stones,” D. B. Sterrett, Mineral Resources of the United States 1909, Part 2, 1911, pp. 739-808.
• The Geology of Santa Catalina Island, by William Sydney Tangier Smith, Candidate Ph.D., University of California, Issued February 4, 1897, San Francisco:  Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Geology, 3rd Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1897.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• “Historical Notes on Gem Mining,” S. H. Ball, Economic Geology, Vol. 26, 1931, pp. 681-738.
• “Limestone in California,” by Clarence A. Logan, in California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 43, No. 3, July 1947, Division of Mines, San Francisco,  pp. 175-357.
• Mineral Resources of California, Bulletin 191, State of California Division of Mines and Geology, San Francisco, 1966.
• Plaster – The History of Plaster in Architecture The Ancient and Classical Periods:  The art of plastering is as old as civilization, by Patrick Webb, August 1, 2012.
• Precious Stones, Gems, Jewelers’ Materials and Ornamental Stones of California, G. F. Kunz, California Mining Bureau, Bulletin 37, 2nd ed., 1905.
• “Quarry Reservoirs,” in “Water Conservation; Think Green, by Saddleback Educational Publishing, published by Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2008, pp. 44-45, ISBN1599053527, 9781599053523. (Parts of this book are available on Google Books.)
  • Calero Dam and Reservoir

    “Calero Dam and Reservoir, located in Santa Clara, California, is built on Calero Creek.  Calero is a Spanish term that means ‘limestone quarry.’  This reservoir covers an area of 349 acres and the capacity to store 9,934 acre-feet of water.”

  • Calero Dam and Reservoir
• Report on the Building Stones of the United States and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, G. W. Hawes, and others, Census Office, 1884.  (This book is available on the Internet Archives – Texts.)
• The Stone Industries:  Dimension Stone, Crushed Stone, Geology, Technology, Distribution, Utilization, by Oliver Bowles, New York and London:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 2nd ed., 1939, 519 pp.
• The Stone Industries, Oliver Bowles, 1934, 950 pp.  (This book is available on the Internet Archives – Texts.)
• The Structural and Industrial Materials of California, L. E. Aubury, California Mining Bureau Bulletin 38, 1906.  (This book is available on Google Book Search – Full View Books.)

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General California History

• An Isle of Summer:  Santa Catalina:  Its History, Climate, Sports and Antiquities, by Charles Frederick Holder, R. Y. McBride, 1901,  91 pp.  (This book is available on Google Books – Full View Books.)
• “Building California:  Technology and the Landscape,” past exhibit of the California Historical Society, May 6 – August 15, 1998.
• California:  A History of Upper and Lower California, Alexander Forbes, Elder Smith and Co., Cornhill, London, 1839.
• California Local History:  A Bibliography and Union List of Library, by Margaret Miller Rocq, California Library Association. Stanford University Press, 611 pp., 1970ISBN0804707162, 9780804707169.  (A preview of this book is available on Google Books.)
• California Place Names:  The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, by Erwin G. Gudde, 4th ed., rev. and enlarged by William Bright, University of California Press, 1998.  (Keywords:  Calera; calero; lime kiln; quarry)
• California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity, Terry L. Jones and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.), Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-759-10872-2. 
• California the Wonderful:  Her Romantic History, Her Picturesque People, Her Wild Shore, Edwin Markham, Hearst’s International Library Company, Inc., New York, 1914.
• Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 – Sierran Gold Belt, The Mother Lode Country, (Centennial Edition), California Division of Mines Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco:  September 1948.
• Geologic Guidebook of The San Francisco Bay Counties:  History, Landscape, Geology, Fossils, Minerals, Industry, and Routes to Travel, California Division of Mines Bulletin 154, Prepared under the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins, San Francisco, December 1951.
• Historic Spots in California, by Mildred Brooke Hoover, Hero Eugene Rensch, Ethel Grace Rensch, 3rd ed. revised by William N. Abeloe, Stanford University Press, 1966.  (4th ed. revised by Douglas E. Kyle, 1990)
• “History of Santa Catalina Island,” by Mrs. M. Burton Williamson (read Dec. 7, 1903) in the Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 6, by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California, 1904, pp. 14-31.   (Keywords:  Santa Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California) (Indian serpentine & soapstone quarries), pp. 25 et al. (This presentation is available on Google Books - Full View Books.)
• History of the West Coast of North America, on Wikipedia
• Land in California, W. W. Robinson, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 1948.
• Rand McNally’s Pioneer Atlas of The American West, Rand McNally & Co., 1969 ed.  (“California” section, pp. 16.)