Herbert Eugene Bolton_Historian of the American Borderlands
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67. HEB to Adams, 9/28/1908, BP Out.
68. Adams to Turner, 10/19/1908, 11/2/1908, TU:11.
69. Adams to Bolton, 11/2/1908, 11/24/1908, BP In.
70. HEB to Adams, 11/16/1908, BP Out.
71. Adams to Bolton, 11/24/1908, BP In.
72. HEB to Adams, 12/3/1908, BP Out.
73. Adams to Bolton, 12/19/1908, BP In; HEB to Adams, 12/26/1908, BP In [Bolton's copy kept in the Adams file].
74. HEB to S. E. Mezes, 6/4/1909, BP Out.
75. Turner to HEB, 3/25/1909, BP In.
76. Anonymous, “Visiting Faculty.”
77. Stephens to HEB, 8/13/1910, BP In.
78. Stephens to Turner, 7/25/1909, TU:12.
79. Ibid.
80. Bogue, Turner, 251.
81. Stephens to Turner, 8/15/1909, TU:12.
82. “Academy of Pacific Coast History,” AHA-LC, Box 460, Committee Misc.
83. E.g., Rudolph Taussig to Stephens, 9/20/1910 and 4/27/1915, HMSP, Box 8, In.
84. Stephens to Turner, 8/15/1909, TU:12.
85. Wheeler to Turner, 8/17/1909, TU:12.
86. Adams to Turner, 9/6/1909, TU:12.
87. Turner to Van Hise, 9/16/1909, TU:12. This letter is a mere fragment, but the meaning seems clear enough.
88. Telegram quoted in Haskins to Turner, 9/16/1909, TU:12.
89. Turner to HEB, 12/2/1909, BP In.
90. Turner quoted in Bogue, Turner, 253.
91. Teggart to Stephens, 5/10/1910, HMSP, Box 8, In.
92. Pool, Barker, 44.
93. HEB to Mezes, 7/30/1910, BP Out.
94. Ibid.
95. Ibid.; Stephens to HEB, 8/13/1910, BP In.
96. Bannon, Bolton, 74.
97. Stephens to HEB, 8/13/1910, BP In.
98. Stephens to HEB, 8/19/1910, BP In.
99. Stephens to HEB, 8/19/1910, BP In. Bolton's words, extracted from his letter of 8/24/1910, were typed onto Stephens's letter. Bolton's August 24 letter to Stephens does not exist.
100. Barker to HEB, 8/4/1910, 10/27/1910, BP In.
101. HEB to Stephens, 9/21/1910, BP Out.
102. Stephens to Bolton, 9/26/1910, BP In.
103. Pool, Barker, 44.
104. HEB to Frederick, 1/27/1910, BFP.
105. Billington, Turner, 298.
106. HEB to Frederick, 9/10/1909, BFP.
107. HEB to Jameson, 9/24/1910, JP:61, Bolton.
108. HEB to Jameson, 11/30/1910, JP:61.
109. HEB to Turner, 12/27/1910, BP Out.
110. Regents quoted in Dangberg, Teggart, 4.
111. Stephens to HEB, 4/13/1911, BP In.
112. HEB to Frederick, 7/17/[1911], BFP (Jameson quoted in this letter).
CHAPTER 5
1. Monroe Deutsch, “Introduction,” in Wheeler, The Abundant Life, 3 – 19.
2. Wheeler, The Abundant Life, 39.
3. Ibid., 374 – 378.
4. Ryder quoted in Brucker, May, and Hollinger, History at Berkeley, 3.
5. Stephens to Turner, 9/16/1909, TU:12. Unfortunately, Stephens's handwriting is so crabbed and small that I cannot make out his word, but I think “possibilities” captures the sense of it.
6. For a recent assessment of Stephens, see Brucker, May, and Hollinger, History at Berkeley, 3.
7. Quotes in “Historical News,” AHR 24 (July 1919), 747 – 748; Jameson, “The American Historical Review,” 1 – 7.
8. Gale Randall, interview with author, 8/11/2010 (notes in author's possession).
9. The descriptions of faculty that follow are drawn from Blue and Gold, the University of California yearbook, for 1911, pp. 47 – 61, and for 1913, pp. 59, 63.
10. White Servitude in Maryland; Colonial Opposition to Imperial Authority; James K. Polk.
11. “The Viceroy of New Spain in the Eighteenth Century.”
12. Dangberg, Teggart, 43 – 45; Teggart and Smith, Diary of Gaspar de Portola.
13. Kagan, Spain in America, 11, 25, 39 – 43, 258 – 59.
14. HEB to L. L. Bernard, 12/14/1928, BP Out.
15. HEB to Barrows, 5/4/1911, BP Out; Ferrier, University of California, 515 – 516; Barrows, “The Revolution in Mexico,” 438 – 453.
16. Kroeber to HEB, 8/12/1912, 3/18/1918, BP In.
17. T. Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds, 117 – 120, 162 – 163. See also K. Kroeber and C. Kroeber, Ishi in Three Centuries, 3 – 9.
18. Quoted in Ferrier, University of California, 475.
19. Gebhard et al., Guide to Architecture, 259.
20. Blue and Gold, 1911, p. 140.
21. Paltridge, History of the Faculty Club, 15.
22. Ferrier, University of California, 453.
23. Sibley, The Golden Book of California, 75, 115.
24. Blue and Gold, 1913, p. 384.
25. This assessment is based on the Class of 1911, photographed as juniors for the Blue and Gold of 1911, n.p.
26. HEB to Frederick, 7/9/1911, BFP.
27. Hackett to HEB, 11/28/1909, 3/2/1910, BP In.
28. Bannon, Bolton, 283 – 290, gives the names, degrees, and dates of Bolton's graduate students. “A Bibliography of the Historical Writings of the Students of Herbert Eugene Bolton,” in Ogden, Sluiter, and Crampton, Greater America, 549 – 672, provides the titles and dates of theses, dissertations, and other writings.
29. HEB, “Charles Edward Chapman,” BP In, Chapman.
30. Chapman, Catalogue of Materials in the Archivo General de Indias.
31. Chapman to Frank Lockwood, 2/29/1932, MSS 5064. Chapman's description of events makes Teggart the only likely suspect.
32. “In Memoriam, Herbert Ingram Priestley, 1875 – 1944,” BP In, Priestley.
33. Priestley to HEB, 9/21/1911, BP In. Bannon, in Bolton, 284, incorrectly gives Priestley's PhD as 1916.
34. Woodrow Wilson Borah, interview with author, 8/13/1992 (notes in author's possession).
35. Rippy, “This I Recall,” BP In, Rippy. A revised version of this recollection was published as “Herbert Eugene Bolton: A Recollection,” 166 – 171. The unpublished version is in some respects franker and has some information that does not appear in the article.
36. Borah, interview, 8/13/1992.
37. HEB Jr., “My Most Unforgettable Character.”
38. 1911, BP Out, published in Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands, 23 – 31.
39. Ibid., 23.
40. Jameson to HEB, 9/26/1911, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
41. HEB to Frederick, 1/14/1913, BP Out.
42. Jameson to HEB, 2/25/1913, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
43. Jameson to HEB, 2/25/1913, 3/17/1913, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
44. Bolton, Guide, iv.
45. Jameson, to HEB, 8/30/1913, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
46. Bolton, Guide, viii.
47. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914.
48. Bolton, Athanase de Mézières, 1:29.
49. Magnaghi, “Editor's Introduction,” in Bolton, Hasinais, 3 – 21.
50. Bolton, Texas, v.
51. Ibid., vi.
52. HEB, “The Location of La Salle's Colony,” 165 – 182.
53. Turner to HEB, 5/26/1914, BP In.
54. HEB to Turner, 6/4/1914, BP Out.
55. Turner to HEB, 10/13/1914, BP In.
56. Turner to HEB, 1/20/1916, BP In. This letter is excerpted in Jacobs, The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner, 215 – 216.
57. HEB to Turner, 1/27/1916, TU:30.
58. Stephens to Turner, 9/16/1909, TU:12.
59. Conmy, The Origins and Purposes of the Native Sons, 9 – 10.
60. Bates, History of the Bench and Bar, 286.
61. Davis to HEB, 1/27/1914, 2/4/1914, 2/6/1914, 4/9/1914, 5/18/1914, BP In.
62. Stephens to Jameson, 3/8/1919, JP:129, H. M. Stephens.
63. Davis, “University Fellowships,” 7 – 8. See also Davis, “Our Early Law,” 11 – 12; and Davis, “The Preservation of Our State History,” 7 – 8.
64
. Davis, “University Fellowships,” 8.
65. HEB to Davis, 5/5/1913, BP Out.
66. Wheeler to HEB, 1/27/1913, BP In.
67. Davis, Dark Side of Fortune, 1 – 79 passim.
68. HEB to Doheny, 4/4/1914; HEB to Dunn, 5/2/1914, BP Out.
69. HEB to Doheny, 5/5/1914, BP Out.
70. Doheny to HEB, 5/7/1914, BP In.
71. HEB Jr., “My Most Unforgettable Character.”
CHAPTER 6
1. HEB to Frederick, 10/18/1913, BFP. Herbert was born six weeks before Bolton sent the letter.
2. For example, HEB to Frederick, 1/27/1910, BFP.
3. HEB Jr., “My Most Unforgettable Character.”
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid. Bolton wrote to his wife and family when he was away on research trips. Several dozen letters from Gertrude to Bolton are found under her name in BP In.
7. HEB Jr., “My Most unforgettable Character.”
8. Davis to HEB, 6/8/1915, 6/9/1915, BP In.
9. HEB to Hiram Johnson, 6/10/1915, BP Out.
10. California Historical Survey Commission, Preliminary Report, 9 – 18.
11. For example, see Coy, Guide to the County Archives of California; Coy, The Genesis of California Counties; Coy, California County Boundaries.
12. Davis to HEB, 5/18/1920, BP In.
13. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), 3 – 8.
14. HEB to Stephens, 12/9/1915, BP Out.
15. HEB to Leuschner, 12/15/1915, HEB Out.
16. HEB to Frederick, 6/2/1914, BFP.
17. HEB to Allen Johnson, 10/16/1916, BP Out.
18. HEB to Frederick, 10/23/1892, BFP; Colin Calloway, “Introduction,” in Parkman, Pioneers of France, vii – viii.
19. Parkman, Pioneers of France, 20.
20. Bannon, Bolton, 117.
21. Dictionary of American Biography, s.v. “Johnson, Allen”; “Personal,” AHR 36 (April 1931): 660 – 661.
22. Johnson's principal works are Stephen A. Douglas; Readings in American Constitutional History; Jefferson and His Colleagues; The Historian and Historical Evidence; and Johnson and Robinson, Readings in Recent American Constitutional History.
23. “Mission as a Frontier Institution,” reprinted in Bannon, Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands, 187 – 211.
24. HEB to Jameson, 4/13/1917, JP:288, AHR.
25. “American Acta Sanctorum,” 302.
26. Jameson to HEB, 1/25/1916, JP:288, AHR.
27. Jameson to HEB, 6/7/1917; HEB to Jameson, 6/18/1917, JP:288, AHR.
28. Jameson to HEB, 6/7/1917, JP:288, AHR. These words appear in the published version with only slight modification. See Bolton, “Mission as a Frontier Institution,” 188 – 189.
29. HEB to Jameson, 6/18/1917, JP:288, AHR.
30. Bolton, “Mission as a Frontier Institution,” 211.
31. Weber, “Turner, the Boltonians, and the Borderlands,” 66 – 81; Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America, 1 – 13, 335 – 360.
32. Jameson to HEB, 9/24/1917, JP:288, AHR.
33. HEB to Jameson, n.d., JP:288, AHR.
34. Bolton, “Mission as a Frontier Institution,” 187.
35. Hanna to HEB, 9/15/1917, [November] 1918, [December] 1918, 11/19/1919, BP In.
36. McLaughlin to HEB, 7/23/1918, BP In; HEB to McLaughlin, 7/28/1918, BP Out.
37. HEB to McLaughlin, 9/16/1918, BP Out.
38. HEB to McLaughlin, 4/30/1919, BP Out; McLaughlin to HEB, 5/7/1919, 1/26/1920, 3/3/1920, BP In.
39. Charles H. Cunningham to H. Morse Stephens, 12/18/1916, BP In.
40. HEB to Albright, 2/31/1917, BP Out; HEB to Albright, 5/28/1917, BP Out.
41. Swain, Wilderness Defender, 16 – 24, 35, 65, 56 – 60.
42. Rothman, Preserving Different Pasts.
43. Albright to HEB, 6/4/1917, BP In.
44. Bolton, Kino's Historical Memoir.
45. HEB to Albright, 6/18/1917, BP Out.
46. Mather to HEB, 6/23/1924, BP In, U.S. National Park Service.
47. Bolton to Edward Hyatt, 2/27/1915, BP Out.
48. Nisbet, Teachers and Scholars, 152.
49. Ibid., 151.
50. Bannon, Bolton, 106.
51. Wheeler to HEB, 5/17/1919, BP In, California, University, President.
52. Stephens to Jameson, 12/15/1918; Jameson to Stephens, 1/7/1919, JP:129, H. M. Stephens.
53. Nisbet, Teachers and Scholars, 153.
54. HEB to Barrows, 4/2/1917, BP Out; Bogue, Turner, 326.
55. HEB to Waldo G. Leland, 2/23/1918, BP Out; HEB to Isaiah Bowman, 7/12/1918, BP Out; HEB to Bailey Willis, 8/17/1918, BP Out.
56. “Suggested Plans of the War History Committee of the University of California,” 1918; HEB to Roy Bolton, 2/6/1919, BP Out.
57. E. A. Dickson to HEB, 9/17/1917, BP In.
58. “Finding Aid for the Edward A. Dickson Papers, 1900 – 1954,” UCLA, Special Collections, www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ask:/13030/tf9xonb6dk.
59. HEB to Dickson [1920], BP Out.
60. Dickson to HEB, 8/12/1919, BP In.
61. HEB to Dickson, 2/16/1920, BP Out; Dickson to HEB, 3/15/1920, BP In; Dickson to HEB, n.d., BP In. Bancroft staff marked this “1920,” but it may have been written in 1919.
62. Bolton coedited the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and was advisory editor for the Hispanic American Historical Review, which Chapman edited. HEB to Davis, 8/7/1919, BP Out.
63. Doheny to HEB, 9/20/1917, BP In. This was addressed “Dear Sir” and was evidently sent to several other scholars.
64. “Memorandum of Agreement Between the University of California and the Doheny Research Foundation,” BP In, Doheny Foundation.
65. Davis, in Dark Side of Fortune, 118, states that the foundation was “launched” in November 1918, but it must have begun in 1917. The Bolton Papers show that the foundation was in full swing by early 1918. “Executive Committee Meeting,” 8/20/1918, BP In, Doheny Foundation.
66. Priestley to HEB, 2/6/1918, 3/27/1918, BP In.
67. HEB to Wheeler, 3/13/1918, BP Out.
68. HEB to Doheny, 10/16/1920, BP Out.
69. The description of Stephens's death and memorial service come from an anonymous letter to Jameson. The author was probably Bolton but may have been Teggart. JP:129, H. M. Stephens.
70. Thorpe, Henry Edwards Huntington, 387 – 394.
71. HEB to Margaret Sartori, 9/16/1919, 10/10/1919, BP Out.
72. HEB to John F. Davis, 8/17/1921, BP Out; HEB to Edward Eberstadt, 8/17/1921, BP Out; HEB to David Prescott Barrows, 8/31/1922, BP Out. The collection is now known as the Fort Sacramento Papers.
CHAPTER 7
1. HEB to Turner, 5/14/1919, TU:31A.
2. HEB to Frederick Bolton, 6/15/1919, BFP (emphasis in original).
3. “Southwestern History at the University of California,” n.d., BP Out.
4. HEB to Frederick Bolton, 6/15/1919, BFP.
5. Magnaghi, Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas, 53 – 81, gives a detailed account of the establishment of the course and publication of Bolton's extensive published syllabus, History of the Americas.
6. Teggart, quoted in Dangberg, Teggart, 10.
7. HEB to Leuschner, n.d. [1923], BP Out.
8. “The list shows…” [1924], BP Out.
9. HEB to Professor McElroy, 2/20/1916, BP Out.
10. Hackett to HEB, [9/26?]/1918, BP In.
11. Hackett to HEB, 10/4/1918, BP In.
12. Vinson to HEB, 10/11/1917, BP In, Texas, University, President.
13. Gould, “The University Becomes Politicized,” 255 – 276. Harper to HEB, 7/19/1924, BP In, Texas, University.
14. Barker to HEB, 5/12/1919, 7/15/1919, BP In.
15. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 20 (July 1916), 96 – 100. The tenor of Dunn's article compelled Barker to apologize to Bolton for not sending it to him for approval. Barker to HEB, 1/15/1917, BP In.
16. Hackett to HEB, n.d. [1919], BP In.
17. Ha
ckett to HEB, n.d. [1919], BP In. This is a different letter than the one cited in the previous note.
18. Barker to HEB, 7/15/1919, BP In.
19. Barker to HEB, 1/15/1920, 1/21/1920, BP In.
20. Dunn to HEB, 12/28/1915, BP In.
21. HEB to Dunn [1916], BP Out.
22. Dunn to HEB, 10/8/1916, 11/24/1916, 1/17/1917, BP In.
23. New York: Macmillan, 1920.
24. Marshall to HEB, 3/14/1921, BP In.
25. Paxson to HEB, 12/16/1920, BP In.
26. Etulain, “After Turner,” 159. These are inferences gleaned from Paxson's published writings: The Last American Frontier; History of the American Frontier; When the West Is Gone.
27. Bolton, Kino's Historical Memoir; Bolton and Marshall, The Colonization of North America; Bolton and Adams, California's Story; Bolton, “The Mission as a Frontier Institution,” 42 – 61. In addition, Bolton published articles and chapters in the San Diego Union; The Pacific Ocean in History, ed. Bolton and Stephens (1917); the Oakland Tribune; The Islander; the Hispanic American Historical Review; the Catholic Historical Review; and the Daily Oklahoman.
28. For an account of the Bolton-Clark controversy, see Bannon, Bolton, 121 – 29.
29. Rim of Christendom, xxi.
30. Turner to Charles Van Hise, 6/15/1906, TU:7.
31. Parkman, Parkman Reader, 3.
32. Jacobs, Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero, x.
33. Ibid., 90 – 94. Jacobs was not the only biographer to cast Parkman as a hero. See Wade, Francis Parkman: Heroic Historian.
34. Johnson to HEB, 10/18/1917, BP In.
35. Johnson to HEB, 1/20/1918, BP In.
36. Johnson to HEB, 2/6/1918, BP In.
37. HEB to Allen Johnson, 4/2/1919, BP Out.
38. Johnson to HEB, 4/23/1919, BP In, includes a long quotation from a letter from Glasgow to Bolton.
39. Ibid. Bannon published a lengthy quotation from this letter, but omitted the sections that appear above. Bannon, Bolton, 131 – 132.
40. HEB to Allen Johnson, 4/28/1919, BP Out; Johnson to HEB, May 11, 1919, BP In.
41. Ibid.
42. Barman, Constance Lindsay Skinner, 13 – 83.
43. Adams, “Biographical Sketch,” 21; Skinner to Owen Small, 12/3/1930, in Eastman, Constance Lindsay Skinner, 8.
44. Johnson to Skinner, 1/3/1921, CLSP. Skinner, “Notes,” 92, quotes Johnson as writing, “You can feel more than flattered by this interest on the part of America's greatest living historian,” which was evidently a paraphrase of Johnson's letter.
45. Johnson to Skinner, 9/25/1919, CLSP.