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This book--like its companion volume, Southwest Classics--was written by Lawrence Clark Powell, one-time librarian at UCLA (and after whom the main library there is now named). He was a "California Bookman," having lived there most of his life, and knowing many of the West Coast's literary luminaries.
Many of the books below--and nearly a dozen by Powell himself--are in my library, whether in venerable hardcover or disreputable paperback. All are treasures.
The books are listed in table-of-contents order.
- Herbert E. Bolton: Anza's California Expeditions
- Walter Nordhoff: The Journey of the Flame
- William L. Manly: Death Valley in '49
- Mary Austin: The Land of Little Rain
- George Wharton James: The Wonders of the Colorado Desert
- Louisa Smith Clapp: The Shirley Letters
- Bret Harte: The Luck of the Roaring Camp
- Mark Twain: Roughing It
- Gertrude Atherton: The Splendid Idle Forties
- William H. Brewer: Up and Down California in 1860-64
- Clarence King: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
- John Muir: The Mountain of California
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast
- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Silverado Squatters
- Frank Norris: McTeague
- Jack London: Martin Eden
- J. Smeaton Chase: California Coast Trails
- Robinson Jeffers: Give Your Heart to the Hawks
- John Steinbeck: To a God Unknown
- Charis and Edward Weston: California and the West
- Idwal Jones: The Vineyard
- Robert Glass Cleland: The Cattle on a Thousand Hills
- Helen Hunt Jackson: Ramona
- Horace Bell: Reminiscences of a Ranger
- Charles F. Lummis: Land of Sunshine
- Lincoln Steffens: Boy on Horseback
- Upton Sinclair: Oil!
- Harry Leon Wilson: Merton of the Movies
- Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
- Aldous Huxley: After Many a Summer
- Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely
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