9781597140492 (pbk. : alk. paper)

159714049X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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.

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