Links to selected free, digitally available textual material referenced in Carleton Watkins: Making the West American.

• John C. [and Jessie Benton] Fremont, Oregon and California: The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, [1850].
• Hutchings’ California Magazine, October, 1859.
• Edward D. Baker (ed. by Oscar T. Shuck), Masterpieces of E.D. Baker, 1899.
• Thomas Starr King, The White Hills, [1859].
• Horace Greeley, An Overland Journey, 1860.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836.
• Thomas Starr King’s essays on Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove for the Boston Evening Transcript, 1860-61.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “An April Day,” 1825.
• William H. Brewer, Up and Down in California, 1860-64, 1930.
• Frederick Law Olmsted, Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865.
• Albert D. Richardson, Beyond the Mississippi, 1867.
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Continent, 1870.
• Josiah Whitney and the California Geological Survey [with photographs by Carleton Watkins], The Yosemite Book, 1869.
• Clarence King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 1872.
• Grace Greenwood, New Life in New Lands, 1873.
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains, 1892.
• John Muir, “Yosemite Glaciers,” New York Tribune, December 5, 1871.

Books on Carleton Watkins that remain commercially available.

• Fraenkel Gallery and Peter E. Palmquist, Carleton Watkins, Photographs 1861-1874, 1989.
• Douglas Nickel, et  al, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, 1999.
• Christine Hult-Lewis and Weston Naef, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, 2012.
• Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Carleton Watkins, The Stanford Albums, 2014.