A biography of Hubert Howe Bancroft at Wikipedia

Learn more about Bancroft's early years - Find out how Hubert Howe Bancroft got started as a bookseller, why he moved from Granville, Ohio, to California, and how he became the largest bookseller west of the Mississippi River.

The Bancroft Library - Bancroft's collection of more than 60,000 books, maps, documents and other items on the history and settlement of the American West became the core of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bancroft's publications - Bancroft's many publications included an encyclopedic history of the American West, histories of Mexico and of Indian culture, some 39 separate works, many including multiple volumes.
Native Races of the Pacific States of North America (1875–76, vols. 1-5)
History of Central America (1883-87, vols. 6-8)
History of Mexico (1883-87, vols. 9-14)
History of the Northern Mexican States and Texas (1884-89, vols. 15–16)
History of Arizona and New Mexico (1889, vol. 17)
History of California (1884–90, vols. 18-24)
History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming (1890, vol. 25)
History of Utah (1889, vol. 26)
History of the North-West Coast (1884, vols. 27-28)
History of Oregon (1886-88, vols. 29-30)
History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana (1890, vol. 31)
History of British Columbia (1887, vol. 32)
History of Alaska (1886, vol. 33)
California Pastorals (1888, vol. 34)
California inter Pocula (1888, vol. 35)
Popular Tribunals (1887, vols. 36-37)
Essays and Miscellany (1890, vol. 38)
Literary Industries (1890, memoir, vol. 39)
The Book of Wealth (1896)
The New Pacific (1898)
Retrospection, Political and Personal (1912, memoir)
In These Latter Days (1917)
A number of Bancroft's original works have been reprinted in modern editions. We're working on an updated list of those works, which will be available soon.