by
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Kim Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents;...