Literary Industries: Chasing a Vanishing West Paperback - 2014
by Hubert Howe Bancroft; Abridged by Kim Bancroft; Afterword by Charles B. Faulhaber
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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; 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 Literary Industries. Literary Industries sparkles with the exuberance of nineteenth-century California and introduces us to a man of great complexity and wit. Edited for the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place--and as it was being recorded--Kim Bancroft's edition of Literary Industries is a joy to read.
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- Title Literary Industries: Chasing a Vanishing West
- Author Hubert Howe Bancroft; Abridged by Kim Bancroft; Afterword by Charles B. Faulhaber
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 254
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Heyday Books
- Date 2014-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781597142489 / 1597142484
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Historians - United States, Booksellers and bookselling - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013028686
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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