Hubert Howe Bancroft: 16 books

A detailed study of Native Americans during the mid nineteenth century. The book covers the Indians of Califonia, New Mexico, Colombia and more. Each sub-tribe is analysed, their customs, way of life and society.

The terms Savage and Civilized, as applied to races of men, are relative and not absolute terms. At best these words mark only broad shifting stages in human progress; the one near the point of departure, the other farther on toward the unattainable end. This progress is one and universal, though of...

In pursuance of a general plan involving the production of a series of works on the western half of North America, I present this delineation of its aboriginal inhabitants as the first. To the immense territory bordering on the western ocean from Alaska to Darien, and including the whole of Mexico and...

Preface During the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what purports to be an exhaustive research into the character and customs of the aboriginal inhabitants of the western portion of North America at the time they were first seen by their subduers....

Hitherto we have beheld Man only in his material organism; as a wild though intellectual animal. We have watched the intercourse of uncultured mind with its environment. We have seen how, to clothe himself, the savage robs the beast; how, like animals, primitive man constructs his habitation, provides...

The present volume of the Native Races of the Pacific States treats of monumental archæology, and is intended to present a detailed description of all material relics of the past discovered within the territory under consideration. Two chapters, however, are devoted to a more general view of remains...

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;...

The Native Races, Volumes I-II, Complete Wild Tribes, and Civilized Nations This edition features • two complete books • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS VOLUME I, WILD TRIBES CHAPTER I. ETHNOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER II. HYPERBOREANS. CHAPTER...

Hubert Howe Bancrofts History of Utah, 1540-1886 is an expansive, illustrated history of Utah and Mormonism. Numerous illustrations of maps and more are interspersed throughout the chapters. A table of contents is also included for easier navigation.

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In the history of Utah we come upon a new series of social phenomena, whose multiformity and unconventionality awaken the liveliest interest. We find ourselves at once outside the beaten track of conquest for gold and glory; of wholesale robberies and human slaughters for the love of Christ; of encomiendas,...

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What is civilization? What is the act of civilizing? To reclaim from a savage or barbarous state; to educate; to refine? What is a savage or barbarous state? A wild, uncultivated state; a state of Nature?... "The terms savage and civilized, as applied to races of men, are relative and not absolute...