Here is a growing list of books that have been helpful as I research the history of Fullerton. Some of the titles are clickable. Clickable links go to posts I’ve written about the book.

Fullerton: a Pictorial History by Bob Ziebell. Donning Company, 1994.

Ostrich Eggs for Breakfast by Dora Mae Sim. Fullerton Public Library, 1986.

A History of the Fullerton Union High School and Fullerton Junior College 1893-1943 by Louis E. Plummer, 1949.

Our Backyard Geology in Orange County, California by Richard P. Lozinsky. McGraw Hill, 2010.

Diary of Gaspar de Portola During the California Expedition of 1769-1770 by Gaspar de Portola. Academy of Pacific Coast History, 1909.

The First Angelinos by William McCawley. Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, 1996.

The New Deal in Orange County by Charles Epting. Arcadia Publishing, 2014.

A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions by Elias Castillo. Craven Street Books, 2017.

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley. Yale University Press, 2016.

The Ranchos of Don Pacifico Ontiveros by Virginia Carpenter. Friis-Pioneer Press, 1982.

A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770 by Juan Crespi. Edited and translated by Alan K. Brown. San Diego State University Press, 2001.

Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California by Carlos Manuel Salomon. University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.

Orange County Chronicles by Phil Brigandi. The History Press, 2013.

Toypurina: The Joan of Arc of California by Ernest P. Salas Teutimez, Christina Swindall-Martinez, Andrew Salas, and Gary Stickel. Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians, 2013.

History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present by Samuel Armor. Los Angeles Historic Record Co, 1921.

The Gabrielino by Bruce Miller. Sand River Press, 1991.

Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California by Carey McWilliams. University of California Press, 1935.

Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right by Lisa McGirr. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County: 1900-1950 by Gilbert G. Gonzalez. University of Illinois Press, 1994.

The Fullerton Way: 50 Years of Memories at California State University, Fullerton by Lawrence B. DeGraaf. CSUF Center for Oral and Public History, 2009.

Fullerton: The Boom Years by Sylvia Palmer Mudrick, Debora Richey, and Cathy Thomas. The History Press, 2015.