Editing Hubert Howe Bancroft (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley - DSC04902.JPG|thumb|left|Bancroft Library – University of California, Berkeley]]
In the late 19th century, it was determined that much of the work of which Bancroft claimed authorship had in fact been written by others. This tainted his legacy in the eyes of some scholars, on the principle "false in one thing, false in all."<ref>{{cite journal | title=[[s:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 4/The Origin and Authorship of the Bancroft Pacific States Publications: A History of a History (part 1)|The Origin and Authorship of the Bancroft Pacific States Publications: A History of a History (part 1)]] | first=William Alfred |last=Morris | journal=Oregon Historical Quarterly | volume= 4 | date=1903 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=[[s:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 19/News and Comment number 1|Hubert Howe Bancroft obituary]] | journal=Oregon Historical Quarterly | date=March 1918 }}</ref> The ''Salt Lake Tribune'' called him a "purloiner of other peoples' brains" in 1893.<ref>Salt Lake Tribune, February 16, 1893 (as quoted by Morris, above)</ref>

The [[Bancroft Library]] at [[UC Berkeley]], reflects the collector's name. The [[University of California]] purchased his 60,000-volume book collection in 1905. 

[[File:Bancroft House, 9050 Memory Lane, Spring Valley (San Diego County, California).jpg|thumb|Bancroft House, Spring Valley CA]]
In 1885 Bancroft purchased a ranch with an adobe cottage located in [[Spring Valley, San Diego County, California|Spring Valley]], in San Diego County, as a retirement home. The [[Hubert H. Bancroft Ranch House]] is now a [[National Historic Landmark]]. In addition, part of a property Bancroft bought around 1880 in [[Contra Costa County, California]], later became the [[Ruth Bancroft Garden]], when three acres of the remaining farm land was given by Bancroft's grandson Philip to his wife, [[Ruth Bancroft]].<ref name="silver">{{cite book |last= Silver|first= Johanna|date= 2016|title= The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden|location= Portland, Oregon|publisher= Timber Press|isbn= 9781604696707}}</ref>

Several schools are named for Bancroft, including [[Bancroft Middle School (Long Beach, California)]], [[Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California)]], Hubert H. Bancroft Elementary School in [[Sacramento, California]], Bancroft Middle School in [[San Leandro, California]], Bancroft Elementary School in [[Walnut Creek, California]], and Bancroft Community School in [[Spring Valley, San Diego County, California|Spring Valley, California]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lmsvschools.org/|title=La Mesa-Spring Valley Schools}}</ref>

Contrary to some sources, including Bancroft's own obituary,<ref name=Summoned /> Bancroft Way in [[Berkeley, California]] is not named for Hubert Howe Bancroft, but rather for historian and statesman [[George Bancroft]].<ref name="Hutchinson">{{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Fred C. |title=Street names of the city of Berkeley |date=1962 |publisher=Berkeley Public Library |location=Berkeley, Calif. |page=15 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c034014185&seq=3 |access-date=17 September 2023}}</ref>

An archive of Bancroft family correspondence, collected by his daughter Kate, is held in Special Collections and Archives at [[Geisel Library]] at the [[University of California, San Diego]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Register of Bancroft Family Correspondence, – MSS 39|url = http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0039.html|website = libraries.ucsd.edu|access-date = June 7, 2015}}</ref>

''Recollections of Hubert Howe Bancroft and the Bancroft Family'', an oral history interview with [[Margaret Wood Bancroft]], widow of Bancroft's son Griffing, is held in the [[Regional Oral History Office|Oral History Center]] of the [[Bancroft Library]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bancroft|first1=Margaret Wood|last2=Hart|first2=James D.|last3=Smith|first3=Virginia M.|last4=Baum|first4=Willa K.|title=Recollections of Hubert Howe Bancroft and the Bancroft family : oral history transcript / and related material, 1977–1980|date=1980|publisher=Regents of the University of California|location=Berkeley|url=https://archive.org/details/margaretwoodreco00bancrich}}</ref>