Selected Works
- with J. W. Foster, Report on the Geology of the Lake superior Land District (1851–52)
- The Mineral Wealth of the United States (1854)
- with James Hall, Geological Report on Ohio (1858)
- A Report on the Upper Mississippi Land Region (1862)
- The Geological Survey of California (1864–70)
- The Yosemite Book (1869). Later reprinted without photographs as The Yosemite Guide-Book
- Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California (1880)
- Climatic Changes of Late Geological Times (1882)
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