{"product_id":"2940148938996","title":"Literary Industries","description":"A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and Mexican settlers; and published multiple volumes sold throughout the country by his subscription agents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, aptly entitled Literary Industries. Literary Industries sparkles with the exuberance of nineteenth-century California and introduces us to a man of great complexity and wit. Edited for the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place--and as it was being recorded--Kim Bancroft’s edition of Literary Industries is a joy to read.","brand":"Heyday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075502817520,"sku":"2940148938996","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148938996_p0.jpg?v=1763710253","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148938996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}