Director:
Originally David Reed, later Allan Metcalf.

Status of field work:
Complete.

Areas covered:
California and Nevada

Subjects:
270 speakers from California, and 30 in Nevada.

Nature of recordings:
Questionnaire  of 73 pages in the Linguistic Atlas format, as edited by David Reed and David DeCamp for the Pacific Coast. 300 field records and more than five hundred vocabulary checklists were collected from 1952 through 1959. Ten fieldworkers collected the data, who transcribed words and phrases from their own interviews.

Archives:
Microfilms of the carbon copies (arranged by the page worksheets) along with the guide are available from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. For more information contact the director of the collection or the Bancroft Library. Original materials are held in the Special Collections repository of the Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. For access to original materials, contact the Linguistic Atlas Project office.

Selected bibliography:

•Bright, Elizabeth. 1971. A Word Geography of California and Nevada. University of California Publications in Linguistics 69. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.