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Bancroft, Hubert Howe

▪ American historian
born May 5, 1832, Granville, Ohio, U.S.
died March 2, 1918, Walnut Creek, Calif.

      historian of the American West who collected and published 39 volumes on the history and peoples of western North America. His work remains one of the great sources of information on the West.

      Born into a sternly religious and hard-working family, Bancroft abandoned formal education at age 16, after a brief enrollment in a local academy. His father went to California to pan for gold in 1850, and Bancroft followed him two years later. By 1856 he had opened a bookshop in San Francisco and had traveled extensively, both in America and in Europe. His firm became the largest bookselling business in the West. In 1859 he began to collect materials on California, such as books, maps, newspapers, and manuscripts, and soon expanded his interest to include western America from Panama to Alaska. His collection eventually included some 60,000 volumes.

      Bancroft believed that writing history was “among the highest of human occupations,” and about 1870 he conceived the idea of producing an encyclopaedic history of the American West. Eventually using a total of more than 600 collaborators (the majority of whom were relatively untrained) to index the massive documentation and work on special projects, Bancroft amassed the largest collection of information on the American West.

      To himself Bancroft assigned the task of writing The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America (1875–76), a five-volume description of indigenous ethnic groups, a work still useful to anthropologists. After these five volumes and the next 28 on the settlement and history of the Western states, Bancroft wrote an additional five volumes on the history of California between 1769 and 1848, including the settling of San Francisco and a defense of vigilante committees in the West; the latter is considered one of his best monographs. The 39th volume in the set is Literary Industries (1890), his autobiography. Although Bancroft claimed to have written the entire series, other writers contributed, most notably Frances Auretta Fuller Victor (Victor, Frances Auretta Fuller), who wrote several volumes on the history of the Western states. Through an extensive publicity campaign, Bancroft achieved a gross return of more than $1,000,000. His other writings include The New Pacific (1898), in which he argued in favour of U.S. imperialism in the West.

      Although Bancroft's work is marred by a general lack of careful scholarship and editing, his library—which he sold to the University of California at Berkeley for $250,000 on November 25, 1905—made available to scholars a great amount of historical material, with a broad emphasis on cultural and social interchange in the origin and development of nations. Despite his frequent failure to identify his helpers, their contribution serves as a model for cooperative writing in large projects of historical research. Bancroft's histories are still considered a generally accurate and valuable source on the history of the Far West.

Additional Reading
John Walton Caughey, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Historian of the West (1946, reissued 1970).

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