The California Legacy Project (CLP) began in 2000 as a project at Santa Clara University (SCU) in Santa Clara, CA and later partnered with Heyday Books in Berkeley, CA. The project uses a research team of SCU interns to create radio scripts for the radio anthology "Your California Legacy" on KAZU 90.3 FM, Pacific Grove. This anthology broadcasts nearly 500 literary segments ranging from Gold Rush narratives to Beat poetry. Project interns also develop reader guides to accompany books released by the California Legacy Series (CLS). These supplemental guides include timelines, discussion questions, and additional reading suggestions.
CLS, a component of CLP, focuses on the literature of California’s past, publishing reprints, new anthologies, and single-author readers. Notable authors in the series include Mary Austin, Ambrose Bierce, Toshio Mori, John Muir, and Wallace Stegner. In addition to publishing, CLP also organizes a variety of presentations, panel discussions, and public readings throughout the state, highlighting the culture, heritage, and history of California.
The general objective of The California Legacy Project is "to raise public awareness and appreciation for our state's cultural legacy and to encourage faculty and students in their creative and scholarly interest in Californian culture."
Jaime de Angulo
Indian Tales; Introduction by Darryl Babe Wilson
Mary Austin
Essential Mary Austin, Edited and with an Introduction by Kevin Hearle
Ambrose Bierce
Essential Bierce, Edited and with an Introduction by John R. Dunlap
Sally Carrighar
One Day on Beetle Rock; Foreword by David Rains Wallace; Illustrations by Carl Dennis Buell
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852; Introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini
William Leon Dawson
Dawson's Avian Kingdom: Selected Writings by William Leon Dawson, Edited by Anna Neher
William Everson
Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader, Edited and with an Introduction by Albert Gelpi
Eliza Farnham
Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California, Joann Levy; Foreword by Kevin Starr
Helen Hunt Jackson
A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Edited by Michelle Burnham
Georgiana Bruce Kirby
Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California, Joann Levy; Foreword by Kevin Starr
Harriet Lane Levy
920 O'Farrell Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco; Introduction by Charlene Akers
Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol; Introduction by Jerry George
William Lewis Manly
Death Valley in '49; Edited by LeRoy and Jean Johnson; Introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Frank Marryat
Mountains and Molehills, or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal; Foreword by Robert Chandler; Annotations by Scott R. Grau
Carey McWilliams
Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader, Introduction by Gray Brechin; Preface by Wilson Carey McWilliams
Toshio Mori
Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori, Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada
John Muir
Essential Muir, Edited by Fred White
Walter Nordhoff
The Journey of the Flame; Foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Josiah Royce
California: A Study of American Character; Introduction by Ronald A. Wells
William Saroyan
Essential Saroyan, Edited by William E. Justice
Charles Melville Scammon
Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America; Foreword by Dick Russell
Upton Sinclair
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California, Edited by Lauren Coodley
Lincoln Steffens
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens; Introduction by Thomas C. Leonard
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner's West, Edited and with an Introduction by Page Stegner
George R. Stewart
Storm; Foreword by Ernest Callenbach
Bayard Taylor
Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire; Foreword by James D. Houston; Afterword by Roger Kahn
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's San Francisco, Edited and with a new Introduction by Bernard Taper; Illustrations by Edward Jump
Judy Van der Veer
November Grass, Judy Van der Veer; Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Harry Leon Wilson
Merton of the Movies; Introduction by David Fine
Additional works:
Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846, Edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Califauna: A Literary Field Guide, Edited by Terry Beers and Emily Elrod
Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of a Western Myth, Edited by Terry Beers
Unfolding Beauty, Edited by Terry Beers
Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me: The Seasons of Native California, Edited by Margaret Dubin and Kim Hogeland
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present, Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, and Jack Hicks
The Anza Trail and the Settling of California, Vladimir Guerrero
Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, Edited by Rick Heide; Foreword by Juan Velasco
Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California's Inland Empire, Edited by Gayle Wattawa; Introduction by Susan Straight
