Literary Industries. Hubert Howe Bancroft

Аннотация:

A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832&ndash;1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a &ldquo;history factory,&rdquo; he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and Mexican settlers; and published multiple volumes sold throughout the country by his subscription agents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, aptly entitled <i>Literary Industries</i>. Edited for the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place&mdash;and as it was being recorded&mdash;Kim Bancroft's abridged edition is a joy to read.