The Sign Of The Fool: Memoirs From the Haight-Ashbury, 1965-68, John Simon, 1971 Memoirs of one-time biker who became one of the leaders of the Diggers. See more information

Ringolevio, Emmett Grogan, 1990 A history of the Diggers - a commune which provided food, clothing and more to the needy in San Francisco in the 60s. See more information

Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations, Chelsea Cain, 1996 "When Chelsea Cain discovered that her mother was suffering from cancer, she was inspired to go on a road journey from Oregon, back to Iowa and the hippie commune where she spent her childhood. This book charts the journey and Cain's travels through two generations as she aims to reclaim the past."

A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History, Dominick J. Cavallo, 1999 A study of 'radical ideas' of the 1960's. Part 2 of this book includes the chapter It's Free because It's Yours: The Diggers And The San Francisco Scene: 1964-1968. See more information

The 60's Communes: Hippies and Beyond, Timothy Miller, 2000 See more information

Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie: Tribal Tales from the Heart of a Cultural Revolution, Iris Keltz, 2000 See more information

Huerfano: A Memoir Of Life In The Counterculture, Roberta Price, 2004 "Huerfano is Price's captivating memoir of the seven years she spent in the Huerfano ("Orphan") Valley when it was a petrie dish of countercultural experiments." See more information

New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune, Arthur Kopecky, 2004 Journals covering Kopecky's early years at the New Buffalo commune in New Mexico. See more information

Leaving New Buffalo Commune, Arthur Kopecky, 2006 A second memoir covering Kopecky's years at the New Buffalo commune in New Mexico. See more information

West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts and Cal Winslow (Eds), 2012 "The history and vision of communal living is investigated in a series of essays aimed at explaining just what these communes were, how lives were lived within them, and what their goals entailed." See more information

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