# California Historical Society Quarterly/Volume 22/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.