The historian Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) was the first major collector of American documentary materials and the first historian of the Far West.Hubert Howe Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio,...
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Hubert Howe Bancroft was the first historian to produce a comprehensive account of the history of the American Far West. Anticipating the twentieth-century historical school of the "Spanish Borderland...
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"I was wound up by my mother to work," wrote Hubert Howe Bancroft in his autobiography, Literary Industries (1890), which chronicles his progress from bookseller to book collector, from amateur histor...
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Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft