Red abalone : Origin of the abalone / Gladys Nomland ; The abalone song / George Sterling
Giant carpenter ant : Biters / John Muir
Grizzly bear : My grizzly bear / Jessie Benton Fremont ; The grizzly as Fremont found him / Joaquin Miller
Honeybee : The bee-pastures / John Muir
Stink beetle : Cannery row / John Steinbeck
Burro : From the wonders of the Colorado desert / George Wharton James
Cabezon : On the coast near Sausalito / Robert Hass
Cat : My thing abt cats / Ishmael Reed
from Roughing it / Mark Twain
California condor : Condor dreams / Gerald Haslam
Cow and ox : The purple cow : The purple cow: suite / Gelett Burgess : From sixty years in California / William Heath Davis
From California vaquero / Arnold R. Rojas
Coyote : From Tthe tortilla curtain / T. C. Boyle ; Coyote's journey (from Karuk) / William Bright ; Coyote baptizes the chickens / Alejandrina Murillo Melendres
Mule deer : Dose / Darryl Babe Wilson
American dipper : The water ouzel / Harriet Monroe ; The water-ouzel / John Muir
Dog ; The go-betweens / Mary Austin ; To sergie my sweet old dog who died in old age / Floyd Salas
Dolphin : The dolphin walking stick / Georgiana Voloyce-Sanchez
Mourning dove : To the happy hunting grounds / Ambrose Bierce
Mallard duck : from Fup / Jim Dodge
Elk : from Unwritten history: life amongst the Modocs / Joaquin Miller
Human flea : from What i saw in California / edwin Bryant
Red-legged frog : The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
Gila monster : from Wonders of the Colorado Desert / George Wharton James
Snow goose : A reflection on white geese / Barry Lopez
Pocket Gopher : from Cannery row / John Steinbeck
Red-tailed hawk : Hook / Walter Van Tilburg Clark ; Hawk is a woman / Hildegarde Flanner
Horse : from A boy on horseback / Lincoln Steffens
Steller's Jay : from The birds of California / William Dawson ; from White poplar, black locust / Louise Wagenknecht
Desert horned lizard
from My name is Aram / William Saroyan
Western Fence Lizard : from Epitaph for a peach / David Mas Masumoto
Louse : from Ghost town / G. Ezra Dane
Mosquito : from Scenes of wonder and curiosity / James Hutchings
Mountain lion : The lady and the mountain lion / Charles Bukowski ; The California lion / Charles lummis
Pocket Mouse : perognathus fallax / Steve Kowit
Mule : from Illustrated sketches of Death Valley / John Spears
Giant Pacific octopus : from Journey of the flame / Walter Nordhoff
Sea otter : from Marine mammals of the Northwestern coast of North America / Charles Melville Scammon
Great horned owl : The man and the owl / Yokuts
California quail : The White quail / John Steinbeck
Rabbit : Rabbit crazy / Frank Lapena
Common raccoon : Raccoon / Kenneth Rexroth
Rat : The rats of Sacramento / William K. Mcgrew
Western rattlesnake : The girl who married rattlesnake / Charles Brown ; Rattlesnakes / Bill Hotchkiss
King salmon : from A gil blas in California / Andre Dumas ; from Totem salmon / Freeman House
Sheep : The flock / Mary Austin ; from Ramona / Helen Hunt Jackson
Desert tarantula : from Wonders of the Colorado Desert / George Wharton James
California western toad : Gardening with pests / David Rains Wallace
Rainbow trout : from Trout fishing in America / Richard Brautigan ; Steelhead, the trickster / Austin D. Warburton
Turkey vulture : Vulture / Robinson Jeffers ; The black vulture / George Sterling
Long-tailed weasel : from One day at Beetle Rock / Sally Carrighar
Humpback whale : from Two years before the mast / Richard Dana ; Humphrey: goodwill ambassador / David Rains Wallace
Killer whale : Orca / Robinson Jeffers
Gray wolf : from White fang / Jack London ; The theft of pine nuts / Julian H. Steward
Acorn woodpecker : What is going on in the oaks around the barn / Ursula K. Le Guin.