The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume XXXII, History of British Columbia. 1792-1887
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creator: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
issued: 2019-04-25
issued: 1887
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: xxxi, 792 pages : maps(one folded), table ; 23 cm
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note: THE WORKS OF HTTBEKT HOWE BANCROFT. THE WORKS HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT. VOLUME xxxn. HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 1792-1887. SAN FRANCISCO: THE HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. 1887. An ARNO PRESS book published in cooperation with McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY New York Toronto London Sydney F85-I V. 3% 6\rc! Manufactured in the U.S.A. ARNO PRESS, INC. Library of Congress Catalog Card #67-29422 PREFACE. More than a century elapsed after a charter was granted by Charles II. to Prince Rupert and a company of seventeen others, incorporated as the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, before the first trading posts were built among the almost unpeopled solitudes of British Columbia, or, as the Mainland was then termed, New Caledonia. And yet it was but an accident that the construction of these little picket-fenced enclosures did not lead to the acquisition by Great Britain of an empire no less valuable than is now the dominion of Canada. In 1579, Sir Francis Drake anchored in the bay that still bears his name on the coast of,California, and, in behalf of his sovereign, took possession of the country, which he called New Albion, this, name being afterward applied to all the territory northward from Drake's Bay almost to the Columbia River. Long before the first American settlers, bringing: with them their flocks and herds, had crossed the, snow-clad mountains which form the eastern boundary of Oregon, forts and trading posts had been established in the valleys of the Umpqua and the Willamette. Toward the north the English claimed, by right of discovery, (?) PREFACE. the country in the neighborhood of Nootka Sound. Finally, in 1840, a proposition was considered by the manager of the Hudson's Bay Company to purchase the Ross colony, established by the Russians on the coast of New Albion. That the bargain was not concluded was probably due to the fear of troublesome complications with the United States. Thus to the right of discovery and prior occupa…
note: Includes an index Other copies : http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12786421
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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