Hubert howe bancroft books

Hubert bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft was a historian of the American West who collected and published 39 volumes on the history and peoples of western North.
Hubert Howe Bancroft was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote, published, and collected works concerning the Western United States, Texas, California, Alaska, Mexico, Central America, and British Columbia.

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Hubert Howe Bancroft

Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 11 Jan. 2023). Hubert Howe Bancroft, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/hubert-howe-bancroft, accessed 11 Jan. 2023). Hubert Howe Bancroft, Literary Industries: A Memoir (New York: Harper Brothers, Franklin Square, 1891); digital images, Google Books (https://books.google.com, accessed 2 Feb. 2023). The San Diego Union and Daily Bee, “Noted Historian, Ex-San Diegan Dies In North” (San Diego, California), 3 Mar. 1918, p. 1; database with images, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com, accessed 13 Jan. 2023). "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 17 Jan. 2023); Azariah A. Bancroft and Lucy D. Howe, 21 Feb. 1822, Granville, Licking Co., Ohio, p. 136; citing Ohio, Probate Court (Licking County), “Marriage Records, 1808-1951,” image 104/327; DGS 4257844. The Sacramento Bee, “Marriages” (Sacramento, California), 29 Nov. 1859, vol. VI, no

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Hubert Howe Bancroft papers

Collection

Identifier: COU:80

Scope and Contents

The Hubert Howe Bancroft Papers are separated into two categories and arranged into alphabetical order. I. INTERVIEWS is the majority of the collection and consist of the oral history interviews, “dictations,” gathered by varying researchers. The interviews are photocopies of hand and type written accounts, the originals of which are located at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, and are arranged in alphabetical order by the person interviewed. II. ARTICLES contains several articles depicting the history of the West that were published in Out West and various newspapers. The articles are organized into alphabetical order by title.

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Biographical / Historical

Hubert Howe Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio, o

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The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bancroft, Hubert Howe

BANCROFT, Hubert Howe, historian, was born in Granville, Ohio, May 5, 1832, son of Ashley and Lucy (Howe) Bancroft. His ancestors immigrated to America from England two centuries previously and settled in Connecticut, whence his father removed to Ohio. He devoted some time in preparing for college, but in his sixteenth year decided to enter business life, and was employed by his brother-in-law, a bookseller in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1851 he joined his father, who was mining in California, and remained there nearly four years, accumulating sufficient money to enable him to establish himself in San Francisco as a bookseller and stationer, afterwards adding publishing, printing and bookbinding departments. The business soon extended from Canada to Mexico, and branches were established in Hawaii, China and Japan. As early as 1859 Mr. Bancroft determined to make use of the vast amount of valuable historical material which would eventually be lost sight of for want of a recorder to put it into readable shape. At first h