Herbert Eugene Bolton_Historian of the American Borderlands
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61. HEB to Frederick, 10/23/1892, BFP.
62. HEB to Frederick, 11/22/1892, BFP.
63. HEB to Frederick, 12/4/1892, BFP.
64. HEB to Frederick, 12/16/1892, BFP.
65. HEB to Frederick, 9/25/1892, BFP.
66. HEB to Frederick, 2/4/1893, BFP.
CHAPTER 2
1. Curti and Carstensen, University of Wisconsin, 1:120 – 123, 501.
2. Brown, Beyond the Frontier, 16 – 18.
3. Haskins to Jameson, 2/27/1894, JP:92, Haskins.
4. Billington, Turner, 58 – 82, 108 – 159, 472 – 497; Bogue, Turner, 39 – 57, 91 – 144, 451 – 464.
5. Powicke, “Haskins,” 649 – 656.
6. Becker quoted in Brown, Beyond the Frontier, 31.
7. Jacobs, “Frederick Jackson Turner—Master Teacher,” 49 – 58.
8. Haskins to Jameson, 2/15/1891, JP:92, Haskins.
9. On Eliot and the “Wisconsin idea,” see Hawkins, Between Harvard and America, 164, 166; James quoted at 78.
10. Franklin, Life of Gilman, 110 – 181; Hawkins, Pioneer, 19 – 20.
11. Franklin, Life of Gilman, 125.
12. Haskins to Jameson, 7/11/1891, JP:92, Haskins.
13. Bogue, Turner, 67 – 71.
14. HEB to Frederick, 9/16/1893, BFP.
15. HEB to Frederick, 9/30/1893, BFP.
16. HEB to Frederick, 9/16/1893, BFP.
17. HEB to Frederick, 1/28/1894, BFP.
18. HEB to Frederick, 10/21/1893, BFP.
19. HEB to Frederick, 1/28/1894, BFP.
20. HEB to Frederick, 12/10/1893, BFP.
21. HEB to Frederick, 1/5/1894, BFP.
22. Theta Delta Chi now advertises that it does not discriminate on the basis of race or religion, www.tdx.org; Horowitz, Campus Life, 77, 82 – 83, 145 – 148.
23. Steinberg, Academic Melting Pot, 9 – 11.
24. HEB, “How I Got That Way” [1944], BP Out: 155.
25. Becker, “Everyman His Own Historian,” 246 – 55. See also, Wilkins, Carl Becker, 204 – 209.
26. Vincent, “Guy Stanton Ford,” 16 – 23; Ford, “Trends and Problems of the Social Sciences,” in On and Off Campus, 371 – 372.
27. Frederick Bolton to Eugenie Bolton Johnson, 10/29/1953, BFP:3, miscellaneous.
28. HEB to Frederick, 9/16/1894, BFP.
29. HEB to Frederick, 4/18/1894, 6/14/1894, BFP.
30. HEB to Frederick, 7/26/1894, BFP.
31. Wells quoted in Billington, Turner, 147.
32. Curti and Carstensen, University of Wisconsin, 1:525.
33. Harper quoted in Hofstadter and Metzger, The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States, 427 – 428.
34. HEB to Frederick, 9/28/1894, BFP.
35. HEB to Frederick, 3/8/1895, BFP.
36. HEB to Frederick, 3/26/1895, BFP.
37. Tomah Journal, quoted in Bannon, Bolton, 15; HEB to Frederick, 8/26/1895, BFP.
38. HEB to Frederick, 8/26/1895, BFP.
39. Jacobs, “ ‘Turner, as I Remember Him,’ by Herbert Eugene Bolton,” 56.
40. HEB to Frederick, 12/2/1895, BFP.
41. HEB to Frederick, 1/13/1895 [1896], 1/19/1895 [1896], BFP.
42. HEB to Frederick, 7/25/1896, BFP.
43. HEB to Frederick, 8/17/1896, BFP.
44. HEB to Frederick, 10/18/1896, BFP.
45. Libby, “Geographical Distribution of the Vote of the Thirteen States,” 1 – 116.
46. Jacobs, “Frederick Jackson Turner—Master Teacher,” 49 – 58; Jacobs, “ ‘Turner, as I Remember Him,’ by Herbert Eugene Bolton,” 54 – 61.
47. HEB to Frederick, 10/18/1896, BFP.
48. Clipping encl. in HEB to Frederick, 12/10/1896, BFP.
49. HEB to Frederick, 1/3/1897, BFP.
50. Ibid.
51. HEB to Frederick, 10/18/1896, BFP.
52. HEB to Frederick, 2/13/1897, BFP.
53. HEB to Frederick, 4/4/1897, BFP.
54. Carl Becker followed such a path to a Wisconsin PhD. Wilkins, Carl Becker, 46 – 49.
55. HEB to Frederick, 5/18/1897, BFP.
56. Turner to Becker, 7/3/1896, TU:2.
57. HEB to Frederick, 5/18/1897, BFP.
58. HEB to Frederick, 6/8/1897, BFP.
59. HEB to Frederick, 6/19/1897, BFP.
60. McMaster to Turner, 4/12/1897, TU:2; Goldman, John Bach McMaster, 67, n. 28.
61. Cf. Wood, Early History of the University of Pennsylvania, esp. 5; Cheyney, History of the University of Pennsylvania, 49 – 50.
62. Cheyney, History of the University of Pennsylvania, 287 – 288.
63. Goldman, John Bach McMaster, 4 – 30.
64. Ibid., 51.
65. McMaster quoted in ibid., 53.
66. Cheyney, History of the University of Pennsylvania, 290.
67. HEB to Frederick, 10/10/1897, BFP.
68. The thesis accepted in 1897 was filed at Clark in 1898 and published as Hydro-Psychoses.
69. HEB to Frederick, 10/27/1897, BFP.
70. HEB to Frederick, 7/25/1896, BFP.
71. HEB to Frederick, 11/14/1897, BFP.
72. HEB to Frederick, 12/22/1897, BFP.
73. HEB to Frederick, 1/5/1897 [1898], BFP.
74. HEB to Frederick, 1/27/1898, BFP.
75. Morgan, America's Road to Empire, 47 – 48; “University Day Programme,” 2/22/1898, mailed 2/24/1898, BFP.
76. HEB to Frederick, 4/8/1898, BFP.
77. HEB to Frederick, 5/5/1898, BFP.
78. Goldman, John Bach McMaster, 74 – 78; quotation at 75.
79. Lodge quoted in ibid., 78.
80. HEB to Frederick, 8/21/1898, BFP.
81. HEB to Frederick, 9/11/1898; Gertrude Bolton to Olive Bolton, 9/21/1898, BFP.
82. Gertrude Bolton to Olive Bolton, 12/2/1898, BFP.
83. HEB to Frederick, 11/15/1898, 12/2/1898, BFP.
84. HEB to Frederick, 1/22/1899, 1/28/1899, BFP.
85. Doctor Wenner quoted in HEB to Frederick, 1/30/1899, BFP.
86. HEB to Frederick, 1/31/1899, 1/30/1899, BFP.
87. HEB to Frederick, 1/31/1899, 2/2/1899, BFP.
88. HEB to Frederick, 2/10/1899, BFP.
89. HEB to Frederick, 4/22/1899, BFP.
90. HEB to Frederick, 3/23/1899, BFP.
91. HEB to Frederick, 5/24/1899, BFP.
92. HEB to Frederick, 3/23/1899, BFP.
93. HEB to Frederick, 4/22/1899, BFP.
94. HEB to Frederick, 5/5/1899, 5/8/1899, BFP.
95. HEB to Frederick, 5/13/1899, 5/16/1899, BFP.
96. HEB to Frederick, 5/24/1899, BFP.
97. HEB to Frederick, 6/29/1899, 6/30/1899, 7/14/1899, BFP.
98. HEB to Frederick, 7/18/1899, BFP.
99. HEB to Frederick, 8/25/1899, BFP.
100. F. E. Bolton, “Random Memories,” 72.
101. Ibid.
CHAPTER 3
1. HEB to Frederick, 9/29/1900, BFP.
2. Many letters could be cited, but this one is typical: HEB to Frederick, 10/30/ 1900, BFP.
3. HEB to Frederick, 1/14/1900, BFP.
4. Bolton to Sanford B. Dole, 4/7/1900, HEH Manuscript 27057, reprinted in Rolle, “A Note on the Younger Bolton.”
5. “The Free Negro in the South Before the Civil War,” typescript, BP Part III.
6. “The Acquisition of Florida Inevitable,” attached to HEB to Frederick, 8/12/ 1900, BFP.
7. HEB to Frederick, 9/24/1900, BFP.
8. HEB to Frederick, 11/20/1900, BFP.
9. Carlton and Adams, “ ‘A Work Peculiarly Our Own,’ ” 204; Barker, “Lester Gladstone Bugbee”; Bugbee, “Archives of Bexar.”
10. Friend, “A Dedication to the Memory of George Pierce Garrison,” 308.
11. Garrison to Jameson, 1/22/1898, JP:85, Garrison. Garrison, “The First Stage of the Movement for the Annexation of Texas,” 72 – 96.
12. Barker quoted in Pool, Eugene C. Barker, 35.
13. Garrison to Jameson, 7/29/1901, 7/30/1901, JP:85, Garrison.
15. HEB to Frederick 1/16/1901, 3/21/1901, 4/12/1901, 4/27/1901, 5/18/1901, 5/29/1901, BFP.
16. HEB to Frederick, 6/3/1901, BFP.
17. HEB to Frederick, 9/1/1901, BFP.
18. HEB to Frederick, 9/13/1901, BFP.
19. Ibid.
20. HEB to Frederick, 9/22/1901, 10/1/1901, BFP.
21. Garrison to Jameson, 7/29/1901, JP:85, Garrison.
22. HEB to Frederick, 10/6/1901, BFP.
23. Barker quoted in Pool, Eugene C. Barker, 36 – 37.
24. HEB to Frederick, 10/16/1901, BFP.
25. Ibid.
26. HEB to Frederick, 10/26/1901, BFP.
27. Ibid.
28. Griffin, “To Establish a University of the First Class”; Prindle, “Oil and the Permanent University Fund”; Benedict, A Source Book, 397.
29. A Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina (1896).
30. Benedict, A Source Book, 406 – 408.
31. Lane, History of Education in Texas, 151.
32. J. Cutler, Lynch-Law, 179, 183, 188; Littlefield, Seminole Burning, 5 – 6.
33. Lane, History of Education in Texas, 151 – 153.
34. Garrison to Jameson, 7/29/1901, JP:85, Garrison.
35. HEB to Frederick, 10/26/1901, BFP; Pool, Eugene C. Barker, 37.
36. Garrison described the holdings he had seen in “The Archivo General de Mexico,” 430 – 431.
37. Garrison, “Southwestern History in the Southwest,” quotation at 238.
38. The Bancroft Library, amassed by historian and bibliophile Hubert Howe Bancroft, had been for sale since the 1880s, but in 1902 there were no buyers. News clipping, inside cover of Thwaites, The Bancroft Library.
39. HEB to Frederick, 1/24/1902, BFP.
40. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903.
41. HEB to Frederick, 1/5/1902, BFP.
42. HEB to Frederick, 12/6/1901, BFP.
43. HEB to Frederick, 2/1/1902, BFP.
44. HEB to Frederick, 6/17/1902, BFP.
45. Benedict, A Source Book, 823.
46. HEB to Frederick, 7/8/1902, BFP.
47. HEB to Frederick, 8/?/1902, BFP (postcard with date obliterated).
48. HEB to Frederick, 8/17/1902, BFP.
49. Bolton, “Some Materials for Southwestern History,” 109.
50. Bolton, “Tienda de Cuervo's Ynspeccion.”
51. HEB to Frederick, 9/10/1902, BFP; Blair and Robertson, Philippine Islands.
52. HEB to Frederick, 7/4/1903, BFP.
53. Garrison to McLaughlin, 7/10/1903, JP:85, Garrison.
54. Garrison to McLaughlin, 7/23/1903, JP:85, Garrison.
55. HEB to Frederick, 9/7/1903, BFP. Bolton erroneously states that he arrived in Mexico on August 27, but he meant July 27.
56. HEB to Mother, 8/21/1903, BFP, Miscellaneous.
57. HEB to Frederick, 9/7/1903, BFP.
58. HEB to Frederick, 12/25/1903, BFP.
59. Blair and Robertson, Philippine Islands, 18:29.
60. Dunn, “My Most Unforgettable Character” [1953], BP In.
61. Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1949, BP Out. Bolton mistakenly recalled that he met Jordan in Austin at the time of the earthquake, but Jordan was at home in Stanford then.
62. Jordan, The Days of Man, 2:151 – 153; quotation at 153.
63. “The Spanish Abandonment and Re-occupation of East Texas.”
64. With the Makers of Texas, v – vii.
65. HEB to Frederick, 5/27/1904, BFP.
66. HEB to Frederick, 6/16/1905, BFP.
67. Garrison to Jameson, JP:85, Garrison; Bolton to Jameson, 2/27/1905, JP:61, Bolton.
68. Rothberg and Goggin, John Franklin Jameson, 3:5.
69. Jameson to HEB, 2/27/1905, JP:61, Bolton.
70. HEB to Turner, 6/10/1905, JP:61, Bolton.
71. Turner to Jameson, 6/30/1905, JP:132. This brief, hand-scrawled note was separated from Bolton's letter cited in the previous note.
72. HEB to Jameson, 9/2/1905, JP:61, Bolton.
73. Garrison to Jameson, 9/2/1905, JP:85, Garrison.
74. I have not found Jameson's September 1905 proffer in his papers or in Bolton's.
75. Garrison to Jameson, 9/21/1905, JP:85, Garrison.
76. HEB to Jameson, 11/15/1905, JP:61, Bolton.
77. “Material for Southwestern History in the Central Archives of Mexico.”
78. Jameson to HEB, 1/4/1906, JP:61, Bolton.
79. “Will Investigate Mexican Archives,” news clipping, encl. in HEB to Frederick, 1/14/1906, BFP.
80. HEB to Frederick, 1/14/1906, BFP.
81. HEB to Frederick, 4/18/1906, 10/9/1906, BFP.
82. HEB to Jameson, 1/18/1906, JP:61, Bolton.
83. Jameson to HEB, 1/22/1906, JP:61, Bolton.
84. Hodge, Handbook of American Indians.
85. HEB to Holmes, 4/18/1906, BP Out; HEB to Frederick, 10/9/1906, BFP.
86. HEB to Jameson, 9/3/1906; Jameson to HEB, 9/5/1906, JP:61, Bolton.
87. Jameson to HEB, 12/12/1906, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
88. Garrison to Jameson, 12/13/1906, JP:85, Garrison.
89. Jameson to Garrison, 12/22/1906, JP:85, Garrison (emphasis in original).
90. Garrison to Jameson, 1/21/1907, JP:85, Garrison; Poole, Eugene C. Barker, 42.
91. Jameson to Garrison, 1/28/1907, JP:85, Garrison.
92. HEB to Jameson, 3/15/1907, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
93. HEB to Frederick, 6/15/1907, BFP.
94. The mine was also known as the San Saba. HEB to Frederick, 6/7/1907, BFP; HEB, “The Discovery of the San Saba Mine,” 1950, BP Out.
95. HEB to Frederick, 6/7/1907, BFP.
96. HEB to Frederick, 6/7/1907, BFP; HEB to J. Farley, 4/30/1910, BP Out; Pierre L. Russell to HEB, 12/29/1932, BP In.
CHAPTER 4
1. Turner to Henry Morse Stephens, 7/7/1902, TU:3.
2. Gale, “Farrand, Max.”
3. For example, see Turner to Charles Van Hise, 8/3/1906, TU:7; Farrand to Turner, 8/23/1907, TU:9A; Jacobs, Frederick Jackson Turner's Legacy, 28.
4. In December, rumors about Stanford University and Turner began to appear in California newspapers. Farrand to Turner, 12/17/1904, TU:4.
5. Mirrielees, Stanford, 13 – 81.
6. While Bancroft wrote sections of the history, he relied on a staff of researchers and writers to compile much of his work. Caughey, Bancroft, 99 – 117.
7. Ibid., 349 – 365; “Bancroft Library May Go to the University,” newspaper clipping, in Thwaites, The Bancroft Library, inside front cover.
8. Dillon, “Sutro”; Dillon, “Sutro Library,” Burr quoted at 342.
9. Turner to Farrand, 10/4/1904, TU:4.
10. Farrand to Turner, 10/10/1904, 12/24/1904, TU:4.
11. Nagel, Iron Will, 203 – 204.
12. Stanford quoted in ibid., 204 – 208.
13. Cutler, The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford, 9 – 25 passim. Cf. Nagel, Iron Will, 210 – 211; Ogle, “The Mysterious Death of Mrs. Leland Stanford.”
14. Elliott, Stanford University, 128 – 129.
15. Turner to Farrand, 1/23/1905, TU:5.
16. Farrand to Turner, 12/17/1904, TU:4.
17. Stephens to Turner, 12/13/1904; Turner to Stephens, 12/17/1904, Tu:4.
18. Caughey, Bancroft, 358 – 360.
19. Newspaper quoted in ibid., 364.
20. Thwaites, The Bancroft Library, 4, 19.
21. Ibid., 19, 20.
22. Thwaites quoted in Dangberg, Teggart, 39.
23. Wheeler to Turner, 1/20/1906, 2/21/1906, TU:6.
24. Memo, Board of Trustees, March 27, 1906, Stanford, TU:6A.
25. Notice form the Board of Regents, April 20, 1906, TU:7.
26. Jordan, The Days of Man, 2:168.
27. Fradkin, The Great Earthquake, 190.
28. Jordan to Turner, 4/18/1906, TU:6A.
29. Jordan to Farrand, 4/19/906, HM 16697, HEH.
30. Jordan to Turner, 4/20/1906, TU:6A.
31. Turner to Farrand, 4/26/1906, TU:6A.
32. Wheeler, The Abundant Life, 134. Quotation in HEB, “Friends of the Bancroft Library,” 1949, BP Out.
33. Stephens to Turner, 5/2/1906, TU:6A.
34. Dillon, “Sutro Library,” 344.
35. Stephens to Turner, 5/2/1906, TU:6A.
36. Caughey, Bancroft, 393; Dangberg, Teggart, 42.
37. Turner to Van Hise, 8/3/1906, TU:7.
38. Bohemian Club, A Chronicle of Our Years, 9 – 17.
39. Turner to Van Hise, 8/3/1906, TU:7.
40. Frances Bolton Appleton to Eugenie Bolton, 8/11/1953, transcript in author's possession. Quotations in HEB to Frederick, 8/18/1907, BFP.
41. Hodge, Handbook of American Indians. Bolton's book The Hasinais was published after his death.
42. HEB to Frederick, 8/18/1907, BFP.
43. HEB, “Rambles in Mexico,” MLRP BP.
44. Engelhardt to HEB, 4/30/1907, 5/28/1907, 10/16/1907, 10/29/1907, and Engelhardt to Rev. P. Presidente, 10/16/1907, BP In, Engelhardt.
45. Engelhardt to HEB, 11/26/1907, BP In, Engelhardt.
46. Jameson to HEB, 10/10/1907, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
47. HEB to Jameson, 10/14/1907, 10/16/1907, JP:88, Guide to the Mexican Archives.
48. “Papers of Zebulon M. Pike,” 798 – 827.
49. Dana Carleton Munro to Frederick Jackson Turner, n.d. [1907], TU:9A.
50. Eugene C. Barker to HEB, 3/28/1908, BP In.
51. HEB to Gammon, Worsham, and Pope, 3/4/1908, 3/14/1908, BP Out.
52. For example, see BP In, Texas, Attorney General.
53. This and the following three paragraphs draw upon HEB, “Rambles in Mexico,” MLRP BP.
54. Bolton spelled Corral's name with one r, but I have corrected the spelling when quoting him. On Corral's reputation, see Knight, The Mexican Revolution, 1:54, 73, 75 – 76, 202.
55. HEB, “Rambles in Mexico,” MLRP BP.
56. Ibid.
57. HEB to Turner, 1/25/1908, TU:10.
58. Turner to HEB, 2/25/1908, BP In; HEB to Turner, 3/14/1908, TU:12.
59. 6th ed. (London: Rivingtons, 1902).
60. HEB, “On Wisdom's Trail,” 54 – 55.
61. Barker to HEB, 3/28/1908, BP In.
62. Jordan to Turner, 6/9/1908; Adams to Turner, 6/30/1908, TU:11.
63. Adams to Turner, 7/25/1908, TU:11.
64. Adams to HEB, 8/31/1908, BP In.
65. Turner to Adams, 7/12/1908, TU:11.
66. Adams to Turner, 9/7/1908; Turner to Adams, 10/12/1908, TU:11.