Hubert Howe Bancroft

The Native Races of the Pacific States is the magnum opus American historian and ethnologist Hubert Howe Bancroft who took upon himself the task of researching the exotic civilizations of the entire Pacific coast region. This region, from Alaska to Darien, including the whole of Mexico and Central America, he named the Pacific States. Before the arrival of Europeans, these territories were populated by aborigines, from the reptile-eating cave-dwellers of the Great Basin, to the Aztec and Maya civilization of the southern table-land. Volume 1 – Wild Tribes Volume 2 – Civilized Nations Volume 3 – Myths and Languages Volume 4 – Antiquities Volume 5 – Primitive History

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The present volume of the Native Races of the Pacific States treats of monumental arch¾ology, and is intended to present a detailed description of all material relics of the past discovered within the territory under consideration. Two chapters, however, are devoted to a more general view of remains outside the limits of this territoryÑthose of South America and of the eastern United StatesÑas being illustrative of, and of inseparable interest in connection with, my subject proper. Since monumental remains in the western continent without the broad limits thus included are comparatively few and unimportant, I may without exaggeration, if the execution of the work be in any degree commensurate with its aim, claim for this treatise a place among the most complete ever published on American antiquities as a whole. Indeed, Mr Baldwin's most excellent little book on Ancient America is the only comprehensive work treating of this subject now before the public. As a popular treatise, compressing within a small duodecimo volume the whole subject of arch¾ology, including, besides material relics, tradition, and speculation concerning origin and history as well, this book cannot be too highly praised; I propose, however, by devoting a large octavo volume to one half or less of Mr Baldwin's subject-matter, to add at least encyclopedic value to this division of my work. There are some departments of the present subject in which I can hardly hope to improve upon or even to equal descriptions already extant. Such are the ruins of Yucatan, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, so ably treated by Messrs Stephens, Catherwood, and Squier. Indeed, not a few relics of great importance are known to the world only through the pen or pencil of one or another of these gentlemen, in which cases I am forced to draw somewhat largely upon the result of their investigations. Yet even within the territory mentioned, concerning Uxmal and Chichen Itza we have most valuable details in the works of M. M. Waldeck and Charnay; at Quirigua, Dr Scherzer's labors are no less satisfactory than those of Mr Catherwood; and Mr Squier's careful observations in Nicaragua are supplemented, to the advantage of the antiquarian public, by the scarcely less extensive investigations of Mr Boyle. In the case of Palenque, in some respects the most remarkable American ruin, we have, besides the exhaustive delineations of Waldeck and Stephens, several others scarcely less satisfactory or interesting from the pens of competent observers; and in a large majority of instances each locality, if not each separate relic, has been described from personal examination by several parties, each noting some particulars by the others neglected.Ê

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: The Native Races, Antiquities

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Vol. II

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol X: History of Mexico

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana

History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana. 1890

Frances Fuller Victor

William Nemos

Henry Lebbeus Oak

This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.

History of California

California: 1542-1800

1792-1887

... History of British Columbia

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of British Columbia. 1887

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1884-89

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: Literary industries. 1890

Literary Industries

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming

West American History

History of the Pacific States of North America: Mexico. 1883-88

British Columbia. 1887

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1886-1889

Arizona and New Mexico. 1888

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