Editing Hubert Howe Bancroft (section)

==Published works==
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Bancroft's written works include the following, with the 39-volume set of The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (pub. 1874–1890):<ref>''[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Bancroft%2C+Hubert+Howe%2C+1832-1918%22 Historical Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft]''. [[Internet Archive]] (retrieved September 24, 2012)</ref>
* {{cite book|title=The Native Races: Wild tribes|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41070|volume=I|year=1875|publisher=D. Appleton}}
* {{cite book|title=The Native Races: Civilized nations|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42808|volume=II|year=1875|publisher=D. Appleton}}
* {{cite book|title=The Native Races: Myths and languages|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43123|volume=III|year=1875|publisher=Appleton}}
* {{cite book|title=The Native Races: Antiquities|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44104|volume=IV|year=1875|publisher=D. Appleton}} (Remains and Ruins)
* {{cite book|title=The Native Races: Primitive History|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45268|volume=V|year=1876|publisher=D. Appleton}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Central America. 1501–1530|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHl0AAAAMAAJ|volume=VI|year=1888|publisher=History Company}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Central America. 1530–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQ8TAAAAYAAJ|volume=VII|year=1883|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Central America: 1801–1887|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kw8TAAAAYAAJ|volume=VIII|year=1887|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=[[wikisource:en:History of Mexico (Bancroft)/Volume 1|History of Mexico: 1516–1521]]|volume=IX|year=1882|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=[[wikisource:en:History of Mexico (Bancroft)/Volume 2|History of Mexico: 1521–1600]]|volume=X|year=1883|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=[[wikisource:en:History of Mexico (Bancroft)/Volume 3|History of Mexico: 1600–1803]]|volume=XI|year=1883|publisher= Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=[[wikisource:en:History of Mexico (Bancroft)/Volume 4|History of Mexico: 1804–1824]]|volume=XII|year=1885|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=[[wikisource:en:History of Mexico (Bancroft)/Volume 5|History of Mexico: 1824–1861]]|volume=XIII|year=1885|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=[[wikisource:en:History of Mexico (Bancroft)/Volume 6|History of Mexico: 1861–1887]]|volume=XIV|year=1888|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of the North Mexican States and Texas: 1531–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcZQAQAAIAAJ|volume=XV|year=1884|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of the North Mexican States and Texas: 1801–1889|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rgh1AAAAMAAJ|volume=XVI|year=1889|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Arizona and New Mexico: 1530–1888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9gYAQAAIAAJ|volume=XVII|year=1889|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1542–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gRFAQAAMAAJ|volume=XVIII|year=1884|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1801–1824|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6bwUAAAAYAAJ|volume=XIX|year=1885|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1825–1840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgITAAAAYAAJ|volume=XX|year=1886|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1840–1845|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IgVFAQAAMAAJ|volume=XXI|year=1886|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1846–1848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kL0UAAAAYAAJ|volume=XXII|year=1886|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1848–1859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOoNAAAAIAAJ|volume=XXIII|year=1888|publisher=History Co.}} (the Gold Rush years)
* {{cite book|title=History of California: 1860–1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTAPAAAAYAAJ|volume=XXIV|year=1890|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming: 1540–1888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jj4JAQAAMAAJ|volume=XXV|year=1890|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Utah: 1540–1886|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtJQAQAAIAAJ|volume=XXVI|year=1889|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of the Northwest Coast: 1543–1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3gtAAAAYAAJ|volume=XXVII|year=1884|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of the Northwest Coast: 1800–1846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cwsTAAAAYAAJ|volume=XXVIII|year=1890|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Oregon. 1834–1848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXoQAAAAYAAJ|volume=XXIX|year=1886|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Oregon: 1848–1888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwZFAQAAMAAJ|volume=XXX|year=1888|publisher=History Co.}}<ref>{{cite journal | title=[[s:en:The English Historical Review/Volume 3/Review: The History of the Pacific States (Oregon)|Review: The History of the Pacific States (Oregon)]] |journal= The English Historical Review |year=1888 |first=John Andrew |last=Doyle}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana: 1845–1889|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0I6AQAAMAAJ|volume=XXXI|year=1890|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of British Columbia: 1792–1887|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vh9tCsWrjJ4C|volume=XXXII|year=1887|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=History of Alaska: 1730–1885|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQ51AAAAMAAJ|volume=XXXIII|year=1886|publisher=History Co.}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''History of Alaska'' by Hubert Howe Bancroft|journal=Science|date=March 26, 1886|volume=VII|issue=164|page=292|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015749206;view=1up;seq=338}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=California Pastoral: 1769–1848|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7sUAAAAYAAJ|volume=XXXIV|year=1888|publisher=Bancroft & Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=California Inter Pocula|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esVQAQAAIAAJ|volume=XXXV|year=1888|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=Popular Tribunals |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QhU1AQAAMAAJ|volume=XXXVI|year=1887|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=Popular Tribunals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdFQAQAAIAAJ|volume=XXXVII|year=1887|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=Essays and Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9sYAQAAIAAJ|volume=XXXVIII|year=1890|publisher=History Co.}}
* {{cite book|title=Literary Industries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tsYAQAAIAAJ|volume=XXXIX|year=1891|publisher=History Co.}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(calbk195))|title=American Memory from the Library of Congress|website=lcweb2.loc.gov}}</ref> This volume gives an account of his methods of work.<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Bancroft, Hubert Howe}}</ref>
* ''The Early American Chroniclers'' (1883)
* ''Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study'' (1891–1892)
* ''Book of the Fair'' (1893)
* ''Resources and Development of Mexico'' (1893)
* ''The Book of Wealth'' (1896)
* {{cite book
|year=1913
|title=The New Pacific
|url=https://archive.org/details/newpacific01unkngoog/
|edition=Revised
|location=New York
|publisher=The Bancroft Company
|oclc=19919362}}
* ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Retrospection%20Political%20and%20Personal/sztDAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Retrospection, Political and Personal]'' (1912, 1915)
* ''Why a World Centre of Industry at San Francisco Bay'' (1916)
* ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/In%20These%20Latter%20Days/NCksAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 In These Latter Days]'' (1917)

===Note on production methods===
Bancroft made use of [[index card]]s in the organization and compilation of facts for his lengthy and massive series of historical volumes.<ref name=Chron /> In the course of his organization of source material and writing, Bancroft made use of scores of research assistants, the contributions of some of whom amounted to the output of co-writers.<ref name=Chron />

Originally he seems to have intended to use topical sections of writing produced by his assistants as the basis of a broad narrative which he himself would write, but as the work progressed he came to use the statements as they were, with only slight changes. He said his assistants were capable investigators, and there is evidence that some of them deserved his confidence; [[Frances Fuller Victor]], in particular, was a well-known author. However, his failure to acknowledge each contribution created doubt about the quality of the work. Overall, although Bancroft considered himself the author of his works, in contemporary terms it is more accurate to consider him an editor and compiler.<ref>[https://mythebookofwealth.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/biography-of-hubert-how-bancroft/ "Hubert Howe Bancroft – Author or Editor?"], March 12, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2013.</ref>

Neither Bancroft, nor most of his assistants, had enough training to avoid stating their personal opinions and enthusiasms, but their works were generally well received in their time. Historian [[Francis Parkman]] praised Bancroft's ''The Native Races'' in ''[[The North American Review]].   Lewis Henry Morgan's essay, "Montezuma's Dinner,"  rebuts Lewis Henry Morgan's ideas about gradations of civilization.  In turn, Morgan's essay was based on Friedrick Engel's "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan."  Bancroft critiqued Morgan's understanding of stages of civilization and savagery.  Both Morgan's and Engel's ideas are most certainly antiquated and reveal a profound and mechanistic understanding of human development.