Herbert Eugene Bolton_Historian of the American Borderlands
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41 Dickson to HEB, 1/19/1942, BP In.
42 HEB to Sproul, 4/1/1942, BP Out.
43 HEB to Sproul, 2/18/1942, BP Out.
44 HEB to Dickson, 4/18/1942, BP Out.
45 Chappell to D. G. Maclise, 5/26/1942, BP Out.
46 HEB to Dickson, 7/31/1942, BP Out.
47 Dickson to HEB, 9/8/1942, BP In.
48 O'Brien to HEB, 5/16/1942, 12/23/1943, BP In, Serra Cause.
49 O'Brien to HEB, 3/27/1947, BP In, Serra Cause.
50 HEB to Dickson, 10/23/1942, BP Out.
51 “Confidential; A Meeting of the Committee on the Centennial History,” 10/9/1942, BP In, Dickson.
52 HEB to Dickson, 10/23/1942; HEB to Sproul, 10/23/1942, BP Out.
53 Dickson to HEB, 10/26/1942, BP In.
54 HEB to Dickson, 11/10/1942, BP Out.
55 Dickson to HEB, 5/18/1943, BP In.
56 Dickson to HEB, 2/2/1945, BP In.
57 HEB to Sproul, 5/6/1943, BP Out.
58 HEB to Sproul, 6/28/1943, BP Out.
59 HEB to Sproul, 9/16/1943, BP Out.
60 Borah, Elberg, and Parsons, “James Ferguson King.”
61 “Report of the of the Executive Secretary on the Activities of the American Historical Association,” AHA-LC, Box 132, Executive Committee Reports.
62 Edgar B. Wesley to Ford, 4/15/1943; Ford to Wesley, 5/1/1943; Edgar E. Robinson to Ford, 5/5/1943; Ford to Robinson, 5/10/1943; Arthur M. Schlesinger to Ford, 5/7/1943; Ford to Schlesinger, 5/10/1943, all in AHA-LC, Box 141, Committee on History Teaching.
63 There is no direct evidence that Jones and Bolton knew each other, but they were undergraduates at Wisconsin at the same time.
64 Jones to Ford, 7/9/1943, AHA-LC, Box 141, Committee on History Teaching.
65 Bessie Louise Pierce, “Adjustment of the College Curriculum to Wartime Conditions and Needs,” enclosure, Fred J. Kelly, memo, “Reports on Adjustment of the College Curriculum to Wartime Conditions and Needs,” n.d., AHA-LC, Box 141, Committee on History Teaching.
66 Ibid.
67 Robinson, “Statement of the Problem,” in “Stanford Conference of California College and University Teachers of American History,” 8/27 – 28/1943, AHA-LC, Box 141, Committee on History Teaching.
68 “Stanford Conference of California College and University Teachers of American History,” 8/27 – 28/1943, AHA-LC, Box 141, Committee on History Teaching.
69 Truett, “Epics of Greater America,” 234. The course analysis was compiled by Stanford's Thomas A. Bailey.
70 “Stanford Conference of Junior College Teachers of American History,” 8/27 – 28/1943, AHA-LC, Box 141, Committee on History Teaching.
71 Paxson to Professor Guttridge et al., 7/7/1944, BP In, Paxson.
72 Ibid.
73 Hicks, My Life with History, 280.
74 Magnaghi, Bolton and the Historiography of the Americas, 124 – 126.
CHAPTER 15
1 Bannon, Bolton, 222.
2 “We don't teach much by preachment. We teach best by infection. We have to have the bug ourselves. When the bug gets sick our ability to teach declines. When the bug dies the teacher is dead, even though he may still occupy the platform and draw his pay. To teach we have to have a live healthy bug. Even discipline for its own sake usually shoots under the mark.” “Dicho” [1944], BP Out.
3 Mrs. Donald Cutter, interview with author, August 3, 2002, Tucson.
4 HEB to P. B. Fay, 8/1/1944, BP Out.
5 HEB to Mrs. Herbert Hamlin, 12/1/1944; HEB to Lewis Wetzlar, 12/1/1944, BP Out.
6 HEB to Sproul, 4/18/1944, BP Out.
7 HEB to Aubrey Drury, 1/27/1944, BP Out; HEB to Hackett, 5/15/1944, BP Out; M. R. Tillotson to HEB, 6/6/1944, BP In, U.S. National Park Service.
8 HEB to Geiger, 1/27/1944, BP Out.
9 HEB to William L. Schurz, 6/8/1944; HEB to Herschel Brickell, 10/17/1944, BP Out.
10 HEB to Hammond, 2/2/1945, BP Out; Hammond to HEB, 3/7/1945, BP In.
11 Hammond to HEB, 9/22/1945, BP In.
12 HEB to E. B. Fred, 4/16/1945, 6/2/1945, BP Out.
13 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1945.
14 Ogden, Sluiter, and Crampton, Greater America, iv; Bannon, Bolton, 249.
15 “Dr. Bolton Is Honored at Banquet,” San Francisco Chronicle, 12/31/1945, “Metropolis” section, p. 9, clipping, BP Out.
16 Borah to HEB, 3/29/1946, BP In.
17 HEB to A. R. Davis, 8/3/1948, BP Out. See also HEB to W. O. Aydelotte, 7/26/1948, BP Out.
18 Borah to HEB, 8/24/1948, BP In; Brucker, May, and Hollinger, History at Berkeley, 53.
19 HEB to Florence Escott, 5/2/1946, BP Out.
20 Pan-Americanism, n.d., 1947, BP Out.
21 Caughey to Robert J. Kerner, 8/30/1946, BP In, Caughey.
22 HEB to Caughey, 6/17/1947, BP Out.
23 Chronicles of California [1947]; HEB to Samuel T. Farquhar, 6/17/1947, BP Out.
24 MA thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1947.
25 Wiley, “Jedediah Smith and the West”; Aurora Hunt, “U.S. Sentries on the Western Frontier.”
26 Caughey to HEB, 6/21/1947, BP In, Caughey.
27 HEB to Farquhar, 6/21/1947, BP Out.
28 HEB to Farquhar, 6/17/1947, BP Out.
29 HEB to Farquhar, 6/21/1947, BP Out.
30 HEB to Farquhar, 7/21/1947, BP Out.
31 HEB to Caughey, 7/22/1947, 8/6/1946, BP Out.
32 Caughey to HEB, 10/10/1948, BP In, Caughey.
33 HEB to Paul Brooks, 6/24/1946; HEB to Edward C. Aswell, 6/25/1946, BP Out.
34 Bannon, Bolton, 231; HEB to William E. Larned, 8/8/1947, BP Out; newspaper clipping, 11/13/1948, BP Out.
35 HEB to Anderson, 2/10/1940, BP Out.
36 HEB to Harvey, 11/10/1947, BP Out.
37 HEB to Larned, 9/16/1947, BP Out.
38 HEB to Anderson, 5/14/1948; HEB to Larned, 5/14/1948; HEB to Harvey, 7/8/1948, BP Out.
39 Estimated Income, 1950, BP Out.
40 “New World,” Time, 12/5/1949, 108 – 109.
41 HEB to Eisenhower, 8/30/1950, BP Out.
42 Bolton, Coronado, vii. The small maps are at p. 412.
43 Ibid., x, 139.
44 Ibid., 413 – 422, quotation at 414.
45 HEB to Howard J. Savage, 1/12/1948, BP Out; Bannon, Bolton, 242.
46 HEB to Howard J. Savage, 1/12/1948, BP Out.
47 Application for Travel Expenses, 3/14/1947, BP Out; Bannon, Bolton, 232.
48 HEB to John J. Van Nostrand, 11/13/1951, BP Out.
49 Estimated Income, 1950, BP Out.
50 Geiger, “Beatification of Fray Junípero Serra.”
51 Sandos, “Junípero Serra's Canonization.”
52 O'Brien to HEB, 12/7/1948, BP, Part III, Serra Cause, Bibliography.
53 O'Brien to HEB, 1/20/1949, 3/27/1950, BP In, Serra Cause.
54 O'Brien to HEB, 2/21/1949, BP In, Serra Cause.
55 Draft, “The Confessions of a Wayward Professor,” 1949, BP Out, published in Americas 6 (January 1950), 359 – 362.
56 Questions 1 and 2, 1948, BP Out.
57 Sandos, “Junípero Serra's Canonization,” 1260; Costo and Costo, eds., The Missions of California.
58 Collected and republished as Cook, The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization.
59 Hurtado, “California Indian Demography, Sherburne F. Cook, and the Revision of American History”; Jacobs, “Sherburne Friend Cook: Rebel-Revisionist.”
60 McWilliams, Southern California Country, 29, 30.
61 Borah to HEB, 2/4/1939, 6/28/1939, BP In.
62 Bolton and Marshall, The Colonization of North America, 22.
63 Cook's estimate of the population of California Indians in 1769 increased over time from 135,000 to 310,000. See Cook, The Population of the California Indians. The debate about Indian population decline continues. See, for example, Denevan, The Native Population of the Americas in 1492; Thornton, American Indian Holocaust and Survival; Thomas, Col
umbian Consequences, vol. 1.
64 Sandos, “Junípero Serra's Canonization.”
CHAPTER 16
1 Unless otherwise noted, the discussion of the loyalty oath controversy is drawn from Gardner, The California Oath Controversy, 1 – 47.
2 Kerr, 9/29A969, quoted in “The Loyalty Oath Controversy,” Regional Oral History Office, BL, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO.
3 Dickson quoted in Gardner, The California Oath Controversy, 260.
4 The statement is cited in full in ibid., 34 – 36.
5 Dickson to Ehrman, 4/14/1950, John Francis Neylan Papers, Banc Mss C-B 881, Box 177: 1950 #2, BL (available online in the California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection).
6 Kerr, 9/29/1969, quoted in “The Loyalty Oath Controversy,” Regional Oral History Office, BL, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO.
7 G. Stewart, The Year of the Oath, 9.
8 In the 1970s Powell served on my doctoral committee at Santa Barbara, where graduate students characterized him as pro-Franco, a fascist, and a phalangist among other things. They perhaps overstated the case, but he was certainly situated on the right wing of the political spectrum, according to his niece, Mary Alice Pisani.
9 Powell to Billington, 2/12/1951, MVHA, 1948 – 1960, BiP.
10 Caughey to Billington, 1/7/1951, MVHA, 1948 – 1960, BiP. Caughey's Indians of Southern California in 1852 was the result of his fellowship at the Huntington Library.
11 Caughey to Billington, 2/20/1951; Caughey to Ralph Bieber, 3/27/1951; “Resolution proposed to the MVHA,” all in MVHA, 1948 – 1960, BiP.
12 Hicks, My Life with History, 282 – 287.
13 Halberstam, The Coldest Winter, 175, 191 – 192, 384 – 386.
14 Quoted in Gardner, The California Oath Controversy, 158.
15 Conmy to HEB, 9/21/950, BP In, Conmy.
16 Ibid.
17 Conmy's record is reconstructed from Conmy to HEB, 8/25/1929, 3/2/1939, and 9/21/1950, BP In, Conmy.
18 HEB to Hammond, 1/14/1949; “To Whom It May Concern,” 11/4/1950, BP Out.
19 Notes [1949?], BP Out.
20 HEB to Albright, 3/?/1949, BP Out. See also HEB to Birge, 3/11/1949; HEB to Waldo Leland, 3/21/1949, both in BP Out.
21 HEB to Waldo Leland, 3/21/1949; HEB to “Dear Guy” [Ford], [1949], BP Out.
22 Howard M. Houseal, 11/14/1950, BP In, Contra Costa Junior College.
23 HEB to Ehrman, 2/23/1950, BP Out.
24 HEB to Joel B. Ricks, 5/8/1950, BP Out.
25 HEB to A. R. Mortensen, 10/17/1950, BP Out.
26 “In Memoriam: Charles Wilson Hackett,” www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000–2001/memorials/SCANNED/hackett.pdf; Bannon, Bolton, 250.
27 HEB, “Charles Wilson Hackett,” n.d., 1951, BP In, Hackett.
28 San Francisco Chronicle, 3/16/1951, p. 1, col. 6; “Local Matron Leaps from Gate Bridge,” Berkeley Daily Gazette, 3/15/1951, p. 1, col. 7.
29 Bolton, Pageant, 1; quotation at 3.
30 Ibid., 2.
31 Ibid., 124.
32 Blackhawk, Violence over the Land; Brooks, Captives and Cousins.
33 Bolton, Pageant, 3.
34 Thomas Johnson, email to author, 5/12/2011.
35 HEB to Lewis F. Haines, 7/12/1951, 8/15/1951, BP Out.
36 Jacobs, “'Turner as I Remember Him.'”
37 Ibid., 58 – 59.
38 Jacobs, personal conversation with author, 1998.
39 Jacobs, “'Turner as I Remember Him,'” 54.
40 HEB to Robert J. Drake, 8/31/1951, BP Out.
41 HEB to James W. Gallagher, 11/13/1951, BP Out.
42 HEB to Chickering, 1/8/1952, BP Out.
43 Bannon, Bolton, 250; HEB to Frederick, 9/13/1901, BFP.
44 Quinan, “In Memoriam,” 2/12/1953, BP Out.
45 Albright to HEB, 8/31/1952, BP In.
46 Thickens to Bannon, 8/26/1952, BP Out.
47 Bannon, Bolton, 250.
48 “Prof. Bolton, U.C. Historian, Taken by Death,” Oakland Tribune, 1/30/1953, p. 1, col. 10.
49 “Private Funeral Monday for Dr. Herbert Bolton,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1/31/1953, p. 4, col. 1.
50 “Prof. Bolton, U.C. Historian, Taken by Death,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1/30/1953, p. 1, p. 10, col. 4.
51 “Friends Who Called,” n.d., 1953, BP Out.
52 Quinan, “In Memoriam,” 2/12/1953, BP Out.
AFTERWORD
1 Bolton, “Defensive Spanish Expansion,” in Bannon, Bolton and the Borderlands, 42.
2 Morison, “Faith of a Historian,” 274.
3 HEB to Morison, 2/15/1951, BP Out.
4 Morison, “Faith of a Historian,” 273.
5 Ibid., 270 – 271; quote at 271. Morison was also warning historians away from dialectical materialism and communism.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A NOTE ON THE BOLTON PAPERS
The Herbert E. Bolton Papers (C-B 840) is a large three-part collection at the Bancroft Library. Part I consists of historical documents that Bolton collected in Mexico and elsewhere. Bolton's voluminous correspondence constitutes Part II. Part III consists of materials related to Bolton's myriad professional activities—syllabi, lecture notes, book and article drafts, news clippings, photographs, and miscellany. Excellent finding aids for all three parts are available on the Bancroft website. unless otherwise noted, in the present work BP In and BP Out refer to Part II. BP Out is arranged chronologically by year. In cases where the year is known but the month and day are not, such items are placed at the beginning of the year. BP In is arranged alphabetically by the correspondent's last name and chronologically within that file. There are files for institutions, such as the Native Sons of the Golden West and National Park Service. In some cases (e.g., the Serra Cause) there are materials in Parts II and III.
The Bolton Family Papers (C-B 841), also at the Bancroft, is another important collection of letters, from Herbert to his brother Frederick. It is the best source of information about Bolton before he joined the Berkeley faculty. Because the brothers were both academics, their letters reveal some of the details of their professional lives as well as personal matters.
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
Herbert Eugene Bolton Papers, C-B 840.
Herbert Eugene Bolton Jr. “My Most unforgettable Character,” MSS C-2 190.
Bolton Family Papers, C-B 841.
Leon Bocqueraz. “Finding of the Drake Plate,” MSS C-D 4008A.
Alfred Louis Kroeber Correspondence and Papers.
Irene D. Paden. “Dr. Bolton as I Knew Him,” MSS C-D 5035:5.
Frank C. Lockwood. “Correspondence Concerning Herbert E. Bolton,” MSS 5064.
H. Morse Stephens Papers, C-B 926.
Academy of Pacific Coast History (Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection).
California Room, State Library, Sacramento, California
Great Register.
California State Archives, Sacramento
Records of the Supreme Court of California.
Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia
“On Wisdom's Trail.” Papers of Herbert Eugene Bolton. Mary Leticia Ross Papers.
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Ray A. Billington Papers.
Max Farrand Collection.
Frederick Jackson Turner Collection.
Institutional Archives, 32.5.11.7 (Drake Plate Correspondence).
Manuscript 27057 (HEB to Sanford B. Dole, 4/7/1900).
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Papers of the American Historical Association.
J. Franklin Jameson Papers.
Charles Van der Ahe Library, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Papers of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
Pan American University—Pan American Archives, Edinburg, Texas
Alfred B. Thomas Papers.
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Evans Hall, Administration.
Personnel Files, Alfred B. Thomas.
WORKS BY BOLTON
1900
“Our Nation's First Boundaries.” The Western Teacher 9 (October 1900): 64 – 67.
1902
“De Los Mapas.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 6 (July 1902): 69 – 70.
“Some Materials for Southwestern History in the Archivo General de México.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 6 (October 1902): 103—112; 7 (January 1904): 196 – 213.
1903
“Tienda de Cuervo's Ynspección of Laredo, 1757.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 7 (January 1903): 187 – 203.
Trans. “ ‘Affairs in the Philipinas Islands, by Fray Domingo de Salazar.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 5, 210 – 255. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.
Trans. “Two Letters to Felipe II.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 6, 76 – 80. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.
1904
With Eugene C. Barker. With the Makers of Texas: A Source Reader in Texas History. New York: American Book Company, 1904.
Trans. “Trade between Nueva España and the Far East. In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 18, 57 – 64. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.
Trans. “Events in the Filipinas Islands, from the Month of June 1617, until the Present Date in 1618.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 18, 65 – 92. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.
Trans. “Description of the Philippinas Islands.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 18, 93 – 106. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.
Trans. “Relation of the Events in the Filipinas Islands and in the Neighboring Provinces and Realms, from July, 1618, to the Present Date in 1619.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 18, 204 – 234. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.
Trans. “Letter from Francisco de Otaço, S.J., to Father Alonso de Escovar.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 19, 35 – 39. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903 – 1909.