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- ↑ Susan Michno, A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885, Caxton Press, 2007, pp. 278-280
- ↑ Glimpses of the "Old" American Jewish West Vignettes from the Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly Published by the Southern California Jewish Historical Society, Collated by Jerry Klinger, The Jewish Magazine, September 2013
- ↑ Julius Goldbaum Archived 2014-09-16 at the Wayback Machine , Arizona Historical Society
- 1 2 Eric Jordan, The Pleistonence Fauna of Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, p. 126
- 1 2 3 Mathes, W. Michael (Summer 1972). "Book review: Towns of Baja California, A 1918 Report by David Goldbaum. Translated and Edited by William O. Hendricks". The Journal of San Diego History. 18 (3). Retrieved 10 March 2015.
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- ↑ HathiTrust: Indian tribes of northern district, Lower California, Mexico.
- ↑ Worldcat: Towns and Villages of Lower California.
- ↑ Worldcat: Towns of Baja California : a 1918 report
- ↑ Worldcat: Lower California, its history, resources, possibilities and opportunities : fishing, hunting and points of interest.
- ↑ David Pinera Ramirez, Baja California 1901-1905: Considerations and Data for Its Demographic History, SCERP and IRSC publications, 1994, p. 207