Short San Ramon Valley History Bibliography

Bean, Walton and Jame Rawls, California  An Interpretive History, San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 1983

Dotson, Irma M., Danville Branch  Oakland, Antioch & Eastern Railway, Danville: Museum of the San Ramon Valley, 1996

------------, San Ramon Branch of the Southern Pacific, Danville: Museum of the San Ramon Valley, 1991

Emery, Rose Peters,  Footprints in the Soil, A Portuguese-Californian Remembers, San Jose: Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, 2003

Harlan, Jacob, California ’46 - ’88, San Francisco: The Bancroft Co., 1888

Harte, Bret,  A First Family of Tasajara (book, 1891), An Apostle of the Tules (short story), The Legend of Mount Diablo (article, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1863)

History of Contra Costa County CA with Biographical Sketches, Los Angles: Historic Record Co., 1926

Hulaniski, Frederick H., History of Contra Costa County, Berkeley: Elias Publishing, 1917

Illustrations of Contra Costa Co, California with Historical Sketch, Oakland: smith & Elliott), 1879

Jones, Virgie V., Remembering Alamo … and Other Things Along the Way, Alamo: Morris-Burt Press, 1975

------------, Historical Persons & Places …  In San Ramon Valley, Alamo:  Morris-Burt Press, 1977

-----------, Be It Ever So Humble…., Alamo: Morris-Burt Press, 1983

Lane, Beverly and Ralph Cozine, San Ramon Valley, Alamo, Danville, San Ramon, San Francisco CA: Arcadia Publishing, 2005

Milliken, Randall,  A Time of Little Choice  The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area   1769-1810, Menlo Park: A Ballena Press Publication, 1995

Munro-Fraser, J. P., History of Contra Costa County, San Francisco:  W.A. Slocum, 1882

Newspapers:  Contra Costa Gazettes, Valley Pioneers, Danville Times, Danville Weekly

Purcell, Mae Fisher, History of Contra Costa County, Berkeley: The Gillick Press, 1940

Smith, James Dale,  Recollections   Early Life in the San Ramon Valley, ed. By G. B. Drummond, Oakland, CA: GRT Book Printing, 1995

Wollenberg, Charles, Golden Gate Metropolis   Perspectives on Bay Area History, Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, 1985                         

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