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- ↑ Frugé, August (1993). Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing. University of California Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-520-91441-4.
- ↑ "Sacramento Book Collectors Club Collection". University of California, Davis. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ↑ On the Trail to the California Gold Rush (reprint ed.). University of Nebraska Press. 2005. p. Foreword on page x. ISBN 978-0-803-26649-0.
- ↑ Barker, Malcolm, ed. (1994). San Francisco Memoirs, 1835-1851: Eyewitness Accounts of the Birth of a City. Great West Books. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-930-23504-8.