Three Books on California and the West, A) Edward W. Nelson, First Memoir. Lower California and its Natural Resources in National Academy of Sciences Volume XVI (Washington: GPO, 1922). B) George Wheeler, Annual Report Upon The Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian, in California, Nevada, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana: Being Appendix L of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers (Washington: GPO, 1875). First edition. C) La Reina: Los Angeles in Three Centuries (Los Angeles: Security Trust and Savings Bank, 1929).