The autobiography (originally published in 1891) of Hubert Howe Bancroft who was the founder of the Bancroft Library of Western Americana. He lived and recorded pioneer California as a newspaper man and studied these times as one of the great historians. The book consists of a fascinating series of essays outlining Bancroft's career as a historian, collector and publisher. Chapter XI, "Some of my Assistants," has brief sketches of Henry Oak, Thomas Savage, Frances Fuller Victor, and Ivan Petroff, among others, is especially ...
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The autobiography (originally published in 1891) of Hubert Howe Bancroft who was the founder of the Bancroft Library of Western Americana. He lived and recorded pioneer California as a newspaper man and studied these times as one of the great historians. The book consists of a fascinating series of essays outlining Bancroft's career as a historian, collector and publisher. Chapter XI, "Some of my Assistants," has brief sketches of Henry Oak, Thomas Savage, Frances Fuller Victor, and Ivan Petroff, among others, is especially interesting.
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