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Bowman, J.N. "The Names of the California Missions." The Americas, v. 21, no. 4, 1965, p.363-374.

Brown, Alan K. "Place Names of San Mateo County." San Mateo, CA: San Mateo County Historical Association, 1975.

Brown, Thomas Pollock. "Colorful California Names, Their History and Meanings." San Francisco, CA: Wells Fargo Bank American Trust, 1956.

Browning, Peter. "Place Names of the Sierra Nevada: From Abbot to Zumwalt." Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1986.

Browning, Peter. "Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park." Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 1988.

Clark, Donald Thomas. "Santa Cruz Couty Place Names." Santa Cruz, CA: Santa Cruz Historical Society, 1986.

Clark, Donald Thomas. "Monterey Couty Place Names; A Geographical Dictionary." Carmel Valley, CA: Kestrel Press, 1991.

Clark, Donald Thomas. "Some Santa Cruz County Place Names: An Index To Topographic Sheets Covering Santa Cruz County, California, 1902-1973." Santa Cruz, CA: University Library, U.C. Santa Cruz, 1980.

Cochran, Myra Bedel and Geiger, Louise Jarratt. "Where We Live: Our Spanish-Named Communities and Streets." San Diego, CA: Myra B. Cochran and Louise J. Geiger, 1965.

Darling, Curtis. "Kern County Place Names." Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society, 1988.

Dart, Louisana Clayton. "What's In a Name?" San Luis Obispo, CA: Mission Federal Savings, 1979.

Davidson, John. "Place Names: San Diego County." San Diego, CA: San Diego Evening Tribune, 1934-1936.

Dawson, Arthur. "The Stories Behind Sonoma Valley Place Names." Glen Ellen, CA: Kulupi Publishing, 1998.

Dunn, Forest. "Butte County Place Names: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary." Chico, CA: Association for Northern California Records and Research, 1977.

Durham, David L. "California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State." Clovis, CA: Word Dancer Press, 1998.

Enochs, Elizabeth Terry. "A Study of Place Names in the American River Drainage System, 1848-1854." Sacramento, CA: Sacramento State College Masters Thesis, 1957.

Farquhar, Francis P. "Place Names of the High Sierra." San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1926.

Goethe, C.M. "What's In A Name?; Tales, historical or ficticious about 111 California Gold Belt place names." Sacramento, CA: Keystone Press, 1949.

Gudde, Erwin G. and Bright, William. "California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names." Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 4rd edition, 1998.

Gudde, Erwin G. "Place Names in the San Francisco Bay Counties," in Geologic Guidebook of the San Francisco Bay Counties. San Francisco, CA: California Division of Mines, 1951.

Gudde, Erwin G. "1000 California Place Names." Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 3rd edition, 1959.

Gunther, Jane Davies. "Riverside County, California, Place Names: Their Origins and Their Stories." Riverside, CA: J.D. Gunther, 1984.

Kroeber, A.L. "California Place Names of Indian Origin." Berkeley, CA: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 12, no. 2, 1916-1917.

Lekisch, Barbara. "Tahoe Place Names; The Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin." Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 1988.

Loewenstein, Louis K. "Streets of San Francisco: The Origins of San Francisco's Street and Place Names." San Francisco, CA: Lexikos, 1984.

Marinacci, Barbara and Rudy. "California's Spanish Place-Names: What They Mean and How They Got There." San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1980.

Meadows, Don. "Historic Place Names of Orange County." Balboa Island, CA: Paisano Press, 1966.

Mosier, Page and Mosier, Dan. "Alameda County Place Names." Fremont, CA: Mines Road Books, 1986. Mines Road Books

Palmer, Theodore Sherman. "Place Names of the Death Valley Region In California and Nevada." T.S. Palmer, 1948.

Rensch, Hero Eugene. "The Indian Place Names of Rancho Cuyamaca." Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. Division of Beaches and Parks, 1950.

Ricard, Herbert F. "Place Names of Ventura County." Ventura, CA: Ventura County Historical Society, 1972.

Richards, Elizabeth W. "Guideposts to History, Concerning Origins of Place and Street Names in San Bernardino County." San Bernardino, CA: Santa Fe Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1966. 4th edition, 1975. Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift. "Spanish and Indian Place Names of California." San Francisco, CA, 1914.

Schulz, Paul E. "Stories of Lassen's Place Names; The Origins and Meanings of the Place Names in Lassen Volcanic National Park with Relevant Annotations." Mineral, CA: Lassen Volcanic National Park, 1949.

Steger, Gertrude A. "Place Names of Shasta County." Redding, CA: Redding Printing Co., 1945.

Stein, Lou. "San Diego County Place Names." San Diego, CA: Tofus Press, 1975.

Teather, Louise. "Place Names of Marin; Where Did They Come From?" San Francisco, CA: Scottwall Associates, 1986.

Turner, Dennis. "Place Names of Humboldt County, California, A Compendium, 1542-1992." Orangevale, CA: Dennis Turner, 1993.

Wood, Raymund F. "Anglo Influence on Spanish Place Names in California." Southern California Quarterly 58, 1981, p. 392-413.

Wyatt, Roscoe D. "Names and Places of Interest in San Mateo County with Pronunciation, History, and Traditions." Redwood City, CA: San Mateo County Title Co., 1936.

Wyatt, Roscoe D. "Historic Names and Places in San Mateo County." Redwood City, CA: San Mateo County Title Insurance Co., 1947.