Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft (born May 5, 1832 in Granville , Ohio ; died March 2, 1918 in Walnut Creek , California ) was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote several works on the western United States , the states of Texas , California, Alaska , but also Mexico , Central America and British Columbia wrote.
Life
In particular, he has emerged as the author of a five-volume work on the indigenous peoples of the North American Pacific states entitled Native Races of the Pacific States of North America .
In 1856 he came to San Francisco and opened a bookstore. He obtained his education in bookstores:
"It was in the bookstores that he obtained his education, his attendance at public schools being limited."
Bancroft also collected books, maps, documents, and manuscripts. When he died, his library contained about sixty thousand volumes. The University of California, Berkeley acquired his extensive collection in 1905 . Since then it has been housed there in the Bancroft Library named after him .
His estate in Spring Valley , San Diego County , California, where Bancroft lived from 1885 until his death in 1918, is recognized as a California Historical Landmark and a National Historic Landmark . Bancroft died in Walnut Creek and is buried in the famous Cypress Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Colma .
An extensive edition of his works (The Works) comprises 39 volumes.
Works
- Native Races of the Pacific States (vols. 1-5, 1874)
- History of Central America (vols. 6-8, 1882-87)
- History of Mexico (vols. 9-14, 1883-87)
- History of Texas, and the North Mexican States (vols. 15-16, 1884-89)
- History of Arizona and New Mexico (vol. 17, 1889)
- History of California (vols. 18–24, 1884–90)
- History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming (vol. 25, 1890)
- History of Utah (vol. 26, 1889)
- History of the Northwest Coast (vols. 27-28, 1884)
- History of Oregon (vols. 29-30, 1886-88)
- History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana (vol. 31, 1890)
- History of British Columbia (vol. 32, 1887)
- History of Alaska (vol. 33, 1886)
- California Pastoral (vol. 34, 1888)
- California inter Pocula (vol. 35, 1888)
- Popular Tribunals (vols. 36–37, 1887)
- Essays and Miscellany (vol. 38, 1890)
- Literary Industries (vol. 39, 1890)
- The Early American Chroniclers (1883)
- Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study (1891-1892)
- Book of the Fair (1893)
- Resources and Development of Mexico (1893)
- The Book of Wealth (1896)
- The New Pacific (1912)
- Retrospection, Political and Personal (1912, 1915)
- Why a World Center of Industry at San Francisco Bay (1916)
- In These Latter Days (1917)
literature
- Bancroft, Hubert Howe . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 1 : Aaron - Crandall . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 156 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- HH Bancroft, Historian, Dies at Age of 85: Prolific American Writer Passes Away at His Home in Walnut Creek . In: San Francisco Chronicle , March 3, 1918, vol. 112, no.47, p. 1
Web links
- Works by Bancroft on the Internet Archive
- Works by Bancroft in Project Gutenberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b H.H. Bancroft, Historian, Dies at Age of 85: Prolific American Writer Passes Away at His Home in Walnut Creek . In: San Francisco Chronicle , March 3, 1918, vol. 112, no.47, p. 1
- ^ Digital copies in the Internet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bancroft, Hubert Howe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Granville , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1918 |
| Place of death | Walnut Creek , California |