print email comment close California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/ Description: This site "consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century." Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. Publisher: General Collections and Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: California -- History California -- Social life and customs LII Database Information: Record 16320 created by Dana Lubow on 01/03/2000 Last modification on 07/07/2004 Published: 01/03/2000   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/16320