Sources

GENERAL REFERENCE

San Francisco

Soule, Frank, John Gihon, James Nisbet. Annals of San Francisco. Berkeley Hills Books, 1998.
Richards, Rand.Historic San Francisco. Heritage House Publishers, 1995.
Muscatine, Doris. Old San Francisco. G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1975.
Lewis, Oscar. This Was San Francisco. David McKay Company, Inc, 1962.

Comstock Lode

Lord, Eliot. Comstock Mining and Miners. Howell-North, 1959.
Smith, Grant A. History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1920. University of Nevada Press, 1943.
Dan De Quille. The Big Bonanza. Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
James, Ronald M. Roar and the Silence. University of Nevada Press, 1998.
Clar, Walter Van Tilburg, ed. Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903. University of Nevada Press, 1973.

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

California Historical Society, http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, http://www.sfhistory.org/
San Francisco History Association, http://sanfranciscohistory.org/
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, http://www.sfmuseum.org/
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=0200002501
Oakland Museum of California, http://museumca.org/
Nevada State Library and Archives, http://www.nsladigitalcollections.org/

INTERNET RESOURCES

Maps

San Francisco 1860, http://museumca.org/creeks/1690-OBSFMapA.html
San Francisco 1873, http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps1987.html
Virginia City 1865, http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10692/rec/4
Comstock Lode - Principal Mines, http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/2273/rec/4

Map Collections

David Rumsey Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Huntington Library Map Collection, http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15150coll4

Newspapers and Publications

California Digital Newspaper Collection, http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=cl&cl=CL2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-----
New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/virginia+city/from18650101to18751231/=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-----

Prints and Photographs

Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Calendars

Time and Date.com, http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1862&country=1