The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Volume XXV. History of Nevada, Colarado, and Wyoming. 1540-1888
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creator: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
issued: 2019-02-11
issued: 1890
description: "Imprint varies: vols. 8, 14, 16-17, 22-26, 29-32, 34-39 published by the History Company of San Francisco. The list of authorities quoted in each volume includes mss. now in the Bancroft Library. The Works with changed t.p.'s and binder's titles and without the first five volumes, were published under the title History of the Pacific States of America. For the period up to the 1840s, it is necessary to consult all the volumes relating to the northwest Pacific. Bancroft's histories have been bitterly attacked on grounds of prejudice and failure to give adequate recognition to contributing authors. " . .. produced in a literary factory ... the work of many hands, they are spotty in quality": - Phil Townsend Hanna in Zamorano 80. "As time passes and prejudice drifts into obscurity, these works become more strongly entrenched each year. For scholars and investigators they will always remain the greatest source of authority": - Cowan. Contents: vols. 1-5. Native races.- vols.6-8. Central America. vols. 9-14. Mexico.- Vols.15-16. North American states and Texas.- vol.17. Arizona and New Mexico.- vols. 18-24. California.vol.25. Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming.- vol.26. Utah.- vols.27- 28. Northwest coast.- vols.29-30. Oregon.- vol.31. Washington, Idaho and Montana.- vol.32. British Columbia.- vol.33. Alaska.vol.34. California pastoral.- vol.35. California inter poculi.- vols. 36-37. Popular tribunals.- vol.38. Essays and miscellany.- vol.39. Literary industries."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 13
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extent: xxxii, 828 pages : illustrations, maps, tables ; 23 cm
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note: THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT THE WORKS HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT VOLUME XXV HISTORY OF NEVADA, COLORADO, AND WYOMING 1540-1888 SAN FRANCISCO THE HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1890 An ARNO PRESS book published in cooperation with McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY New York Toronto London Sydney Manufactured in the U.S.A. ARNO PRESS, INC. Library of Congress Catalog Card #67-29422 PREFACE. In this volume I have grouped together the histo*ry of what are commonly termed the silver and centennial states, including also the partially intervening territory of Wyoming, which, with Utah and southern Idaho, whose annals are related elsewhere, form the central division of our Pacific coast domain, extending eastward from California to the limits of the field occupied by-this series. Here is a region full of natural wonders, with a climate and configuration, a moun- tain, lake, and river system, a fauna and flora, a geology and mineralogy, all of, them peculiar and distinct. As the discovery of gold peopled the state of California, so did that of the Comstock mines draw population to Nevada. Virginia City and a number of smaller towns in this vicinity sprang up almost in a night. Year by year the output of the great lode increased, eclipsing even the glories of Potosi, and so reducing the value of silver that men began to say it would soon be ranked among the base metals. After the advent of the railroad the heaviest machinery in the world was here erected, and with the development of two immense bonanzas, the total yield swelled into the hundreds of millions. Elsewhere in Nevada, especially in the Pioche aud Eureka districts, rich mineral deposits have been unearthed, but none of >1 PREFACE. them approaching the marvellous treasures of Corn- stock. Next to her mining interests comes stock-raising, flocks and herds thriving on the nutritious bunch-grass common to the entire region between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains. Though with an average rainfall of little more than five in…
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identifier: F851 .B216
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language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: San Francisco : The History Company
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subject: Indians of North America
subject: Indians of North America--Bibliography
subject: Indians of Central America
subject: Mexico--History
subject: Central America--History
subject: British Columbia--History
subject: Pacific States
type: Text