Artist of Alta California in the Nineteenth Century

Early Pictures

Coming to California

The Gold Fields

Life in California

The Idle and Industrious Miner

-- A possible source for The Idle and Industrious Miner

-- Bayard Taylor on the two types of  would-be miners

The Vigilance Committee Certificate of 1856

Sunday Morning in the Mines

Other Works

The most complete study of Nahl's life and work: Charles Christian Nahl: Artist of the Gold Rush, by Moreland L. Stevens (Sacramento: E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1976)

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