Bancroft, Hubert Howe

BANCROFT, Hubert Howe, bookseller, historian (b 1832, Granville, OH; d 1918, San Francisco, CA). He began selling books for his brother-in-law in Buffalo, NY, and remained in the business for the rest of his life. In 1856 he moved to San Francisco, where he ran a bookshop and a printing and publishing company. After amassing a large collection of books on the American West, he embarked on his own prodigious history of the area, including Central America and BC. With the aid of assistants who...

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