Herbert Eugene Bolton_Historian of the American Borderlands

by Albert L. Hurtado

  Trans. Relation of Events in the Philippinas Island and Neighboring Provinces and Kingdoms, from July, 1619, to July, 1620.” In The Philippine Islands, 1493 – 1803, edited by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson, vol. 19, 42 – 70. 55 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903—1909.

  1905

  “Practical Suggestions Concerning the Organization of Historical Materials in High School Work.” Texas School Journal (March 1905): 1 – 7.

  “The Spanish Abandonment and Re-occupation of East Texas, 1773 – 1779.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 9 (October 1905): 67 – 137.

  1906

  “The Founding of Mission Rosario: A Chapter in the History of the Gulf Coast.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 10 (October 1906): 113 – 139.

  “Massanet or Manzanet.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 10 (July 1906): 101.

  “The Old Stone Fort at Nacogdoches.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 10 (April 1906): 283 – 285.

  1907

  “Spanish Mission Records at San Antonio.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 10 (April 1907): 297 – 307.

  1908

  “Material for Southwestern History in the Central Archives of Mexico.” AHR 13 (April 1908): 510 – 527.

  “The Native Tribes from the East Texas Mission.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 11 (April 1908): 249 – 276.

  “Notes on Clark's ‘The Beginnings of Texas.’ ” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 12 (October 1908): 148 – 158.

  Ed. “Papers of Zebulon M. Pike, 1806 – 1807.” AHR 13 (July 1908): 798 – 827.

  1909

  “Portola's Letters Found.” San Francisco Call, October 17, 1909.

  1910

  “Records of the Mission Nuestra Señora del Refugio.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 14 (October 1910): 164 – 166.

  More than 100 articles on Indian tribes in Texas and Louisiana. Handbook of Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. 2 Pts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907 – 1910.

  1911

  Trans. and ed. “Expedition to San Francisco Bay in 1770: Diary of Pedro Fages.” Academy of Pacific Coast History, Publications 2 (July 1911): 141 – 159.

  “Father Kino's Lost History, Its Discovery and Its Value.” Bibliographical Society of America, Papers 6 (1911): 9 – 34.

  “The Jumano Indians in Texas, 1650 – 1771.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 15 (July 1911): 66 – 84.

  1912

  “The Obligation of Nevada toward the Writing of Her Own History.” Nevada Historical Society, Third Biennial Report…1911 – 1912 (1913): 62 – 79.

  “The Spanish Occupation of Texas, 1519 – 1690.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 16 (July 1912): 1 – 26.

  1913

  Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1913.

  “The Admission of California.” University of California Chronicle 15 (October 1913): 554 – 566.

  “Spanish Activities on the Lower Trinity River, 1746 – 1771.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 16 (April 1913): 339 – 377.

  “New Light on Manuel Lisa and the Spanish Fur Trade.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 17 (July 1913): 61 – 66.

  1914

  Athanase de Mézières and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1768 – 1780. 2 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914.

  “The Founding of the Missions on the San Gabriel River.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 17 (April 1914): 323 – 378.

  “Mexico, Diplomatic Relations with.” In Cyclopedia of American Government, edited by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin and Albert Bushnell Hart, vol. 2, 422 – 425. 3 vols. New York: Appleton, 1914.

  1915

  Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century: Studies in Spanish Colonial History and Administration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1915.

  “The Location of La Salle's Colony on the Gulf of Mexico.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 2 (September 1915): 165 – 182. Also in Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 27 (January 1924): 171 – 189.

  1916

  Ed. Spanish Exploration in the Southwest. New York: Scribner's, 1916.

  “The Beginnings of Mission Nuestra Señora de Refugio.” Texas State Historical Association Quarterly 19 (April 1916): 400 – 404.

  “The Writing of California History.” Grizzly Bear 19 (May 1916): 4.

  1917

  Trans. and ed. “Explorers’ Visits to San Diego Bay Told of in Diaries.” San Diego Union, January 1, 1917.

  “The Explorations of Father Garcés on the Pacific Slope.” In The Pacific Ocean in History, edited by Henry Morse Stephens and Herbert E. Bolton, 317 – 330. New York: Macmillan, 1917.

  “French Intrusions in New Mexico, 1749 – 1752.” In The Pacific Ocean in History, edited by Henry Morse Stephens and Herbert E. Bolton, 389 – 407. New York: Macmillan, 1917.

  “The Mission as a Frontier Institution in the Spanish-American Colonies.” AHR 23 (October 1917): 42 – 61.

  “The Spanish Mission in California: Their Relation to the General Colonial Policy.” Oakland Tribune, April 22, 1917.

  1918

  “Cabrillo and Vizcaíno Visit Catalina Island, 1542 – 1602.” The Islander (Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California), July 16, 1918.

  Ed. “General James Wilkinson as Advisor to Emperor Iturbide.” Hispanic American Historical Review 1 (May 1918): 163 – 180.

  1919

  Ed. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the Beginnings of California, Sonora, and Arizona by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Pioneer Missionary, Explorer, Cartographer, and Ranchman, 1683 – 1711. 2 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1919.

  Trans. and ed. “Father Escobar's Relation of the Oñate Expedition to California.” Catholic Historical Review 5 (April 1919): 19 – 41.

  Ed. “The Iturbide Revolution in the Californias.” Hispanic American Historical Review 2 (May 1919): 188 – 242.

  1920

  With Thomas Maitland Marshall. The Colonization of North America, 1492 – 1783. New York: Macmillan, 1920.

  “The Old Spanish Fort on Red River.” Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), April 11, 1920.

  1921

  The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest. The Chronicles of America Series, vol. 23. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921.

  1922

  With Ephraim Douglass Adams. California's Story. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1922.

  1924

  “An Introductory Course in American History.” Historical Outlook 15 (January 1924): 17 – 20.

  1925

  Arredondo's Historical Proof of Spain's Title to Georgia: A Contribution to the History of One of the Spanish Borderlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1925.

  With Mary Ross. The Debatable Land: A Sketch of the Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Georgia Country. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1925.

  “The Mormons in the Opening of the West.” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), October 24, 31, November 14, 25, 1925. Also in Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 16 (January 1926): 40 – 72.

  “Spanish Resistance to the Carolina Traders in Western Georgia, 1680 – 1704.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 9 (June 1925): 115 – 130.

  1926

  Ed. Historical Memoirs of New California, by Fray Francisco Palóu, O.F.M. 4 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926.

  Palóu and His Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1926.

  “José Francisco Ortega.” Grizzly Bear 38 (January 1926): 1.

  1927

  Ed. Fray Juan Crespi, Missionary Explorer on the Pacific Coast, 1769 – 1774. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927.


  A Pacific Coast Pioneer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927.

  “Juan Crespi, a California Xenophon.” Touring Topics 19 (July 1927): 23, 48.

  1928

  History of the Americas: A Syllabus with Maps. Boston: Ginn, 1928. New edition, 1935.

  “Escalante in Dixie and the Arizona Strip.” New Mexico Historical Review 3 (January 1928): 41 – 72.

  “Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez,” “López de Cardenas, García,” “Coronado, Francisco Vázquez,” “Crespi, Juan,” “Kino, Eusebio Francisco,” “de Mézières y Clugny,” and “Palóu, Francisco.” In Dictionary of American Biography. 20 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1928 – 1936.

  1930

  Ed. Anza's California Expeditions. 5 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930.

  “Defensive Spanish Expansion and the Significance of the Borderlands.” In The Trans-Mississippi West: Papers Read at a Conference Held at the University of Colorado, June 18—June 21, 1929, edited by James Field Willard and Colin Brummitt Goodykoontz, 1 – 42. Boulder: University of Colorado, 1930.

  1931

  Ed. Font's Complete Diary: A Chronicle of the Founding of San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931.

  Outpost of Empire: The Story of the Founding of San Francisco. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.

  “Anza Crosses the Sand Dunes.” Touring Topics 23 (May 1931): 7.

  “The Capitulation at Cahuenga.” Touring Topics 23 (November 1931): 7.

  “Coming of the Cattle.” Touring Topics 23 (March 1931): 7

  “Coronado Discovers Zuñi.” Touring Topics 23 (January 1931): 8.

  “The Founding of San Diego Mission.” Touring Topics 23 (April 1931): 7.

  “Fremont Crosses the Sierra.” Touring Topics 23 (October 1931): 7.

  “Gold Discovered at Sutter's Mill.” Touring Topics 23 (December 1931): 9.

  “Jedediah Smith Reaches San Gabriel.” Touring Topics 23 (June 1931): 7.

  “Oñate in New Mexico.” Touring Topics 23 (February 1931): 8.

  “Trapper Days in Taos.” Touring Topics 23 (July 1931): 7.

  “In the South San Joaquin Ahead of Garcés.” California Historical Society Quarterly 10 (September 1931): 211 – 219.

  1932

  The Padre on Horseback: A Sketch of Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J., Apostle to the Pimas. San Francisco: Sonora Press, 1932.

  1933

  “The Epic of Greater America.” AHR 38 (April 1933): 448 – 474.

  1934

  “Pack Train and Carreta.” California Monthly 33 (November 1934): 4, 6.

  1935

  “The Black Robes of New Spain.” Catholic Historical Review 21 (October 1935): 257 – 282.

  1936

  Cross, Sword and Gold Pan. Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1935.

  Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

  “Archives and Trails.” California Monthly 37 (October 1936): 19, 40 – 42.

  “The Jesuits in America: An Opportunity for Historians.” Mid-America 18 (October 1936) 223 – 233.

  1937

  “Francis Drake's Plate of Brass.” In Drake's Plate of Brass: Evidence of His Visit to California in 1579, 1 – 42. Special Publication No. 13. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1937.Reprinted in California Historical Society Quarterly 16 (March 1937): 1 – 16.

  1939

  Wider Horizons of American History. New York: Appleton-Century, 1939.

  “Escalante Way—An Opportunity for the National Park Service.” In American Planning and Civic Annual, edited by Harlean James, 266 – 273. Washington, D.C.: American Planning and Civic Association, 1939.

  1940

  “Cultural Coöperation with Latin America.” National Education Association Journal 29 (January 1940): i—4.

  “Alta California,” “California, Russians in,” “California, Spanish Exploration of,” “California Missions,” “California under Mexico,” and “California under Spain.” In Dictionary of American History. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1940.

  1949

  Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains. New York: Whittlesey House, 1949.

  Coronado on the Turquoise Trail, Knight of Pueblos and Plains. Coronado Cuatro Centennial Publications, edited by George P. Hammond, vol. i. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1940.

  1950

  “The Confessions of a Wayward Professor.” The Americas 6 (January 1950): 359 – 362.

  Pageant in the Wilderness: The Story of the Escalante Expedition to the Interior Basin, Including the Diary and Itinerary of Father Escalante. Salt Lake City: utah State Historical Society, 1950.

  1964

  Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands, edited by John Francis Bannon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

  1987

  The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans As Seen by the Earliest Europeans, edited by Russell Magnaghi. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

  WORKS ABOUT BOLTON AND HIS WORK

  Almaráz, Félix. “The Making of a Boltonian: Carlos E. Castaneda of Texas—The Early Years.” Red River Valley Historical Review 1 (Winter 1974): 329 – 350.

  Bannon, John Francis. “Herbert Eugene Bolton: His Guide in the Making.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 73, no. 1 1969): 35 – 55.

  ———. Herbert Eugene Bolton: The Historian and the Man. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978.

  Bolton, Frederick E. “Random Memories of an Admiring Brother.” Arizona and the West 4, no. 1 (1962): 72.

  Caughey, John W. “Herbert Eugene Bolton.” In Turner, Bolton, and Webb: Three Historians of the American Frontier, edited by Wilbur R. Jacobs, John W. Caughey and Joe B. Frantz, 41 – 74. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965.

  Cummins, Light T. “Getting beyond Bolton: Columbian Consequences and the Spanish Borderlands, a Review Essay.” New Mexico Historical Review 70 (1995): 201 – 215.

  Cummins, Victoria H., and Light T. Cummins. “Building on Bolton: The Spanish Borderlands Seventy-Five Years Later.” Latin American Research Review 35 (2000): 230 – 243.

  Delpar, Helen. Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850 – 1975. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008.

  Dunn, William Edward. Review of Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century, by Herbert E. Bolton. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 20 (July 1916): 96 – 100.

  Emery, Edwin. “Bolton of California.” California Monthly (September 1941): 12 – 13, 39 – 43.

  Escudero, Carlos R. “Historian in Action.” California Monthly (September 1941): 14 – 16, 43 – 44.

  Friend, Llerena B. “Herbert Eugene Bolton and the Texas State Library.” Texas Libraries 35 (Summer 1973): 48 – 64.

  Gilbert, Hope. “He Followed the Trails of the Desert Padres.” Desert Magazine (July 1950): 27 – 31.

  Gutiérrez, Ramón A., and Elliott Young. “Transnationalizing Borderlands History.” Western Historical Quarterly 41 (Spring 2010): 27 – 53.

  Haines, Francis. “Go Write a Book: Nez Perce, Horses, and History.” Western Historical Quarterly 4 (April 1973): 124 – 131.

  Hammond, George P., ed. New Spain and the Anglo-American West: Historical Contributions Presented to Herbert Eugene Bolton. 2 vols. Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Press, 1932.

  ———. “In Memoriam: Herbert Eugene Bolton, 1870 – 1953.” The Americas 9 (April 1953): 391 – 398.

  Hanke, Lewis, ed. Do the Americas Have a Common History: A Critique of the Bolton Theory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

  Holmes, Jack D. L. “Interpretations and Trends in the Study of the Spanish Borderlands: The Old Southwest.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 74 (1971): 461 – 477.

  Hurtado, Albert L. “Herbert E. Bolton, Racism, and American History.” Pacific Historical Review 62 (May 1993): 127 – 142.

  ———. “Parkmanizing the Spanish Borderlands: Bolton, Turner, and the Historians' W
orld.” Western Historical Quarterly 26 (Summer 1995): 149 – 167.

  ———. “More Shadows on the Brass: Herbert E. Bolton and the Fake Drake Plate.” In Frontier and Region: Essays in Honor ofMartin Ridge, edited by Robert C. Ritchie and Paul Hutton, 215—230. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

  ———. “Romancing the West in the Twentieth Century: The Politics of History in a Contested Region.” Western Historical Quarterly 32 (Winter 2001): 417 – 435.

  ———. “California's Fantasy Heritage and the Professional Empire of Herbert E. Bolton.” In Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation, 1769 – 1850, edited by Steven W. Hackel, 197 – 214. Berkeley and San Marino: University of California Press in association with the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California, 2010.

  ———. “Professors and Tycoons: The Creation of Great Research Libraries in the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly 41 (Summer 2010): 149 – 169.

  ———. “Herbert E. Bolton and the Bancroft Library.” In The Bancroft Library at 15o: A Sesquicentennial Symposium, edited by Charles B. Faulhaber, 97 – 108. Berkeley, Calif.: Bancroft Library, 2011

  Jacobs, Wilbur R., ed. “ ‘Turner, As I Remember Him,’ by Herbert Eugene Bolton.” Mid-America 36 (January 1954): 54 – 61.

  Jacobs, Wilbur R., John W. Caughey, and Joe B. Frantz. Turner, Bolton and Webb: Three Historians of the American Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965.

  Jacobsen, Jerome V. “Herbert E. Bolton.” Mid-America 35 (April 1953): 75 – 80.

  Karel, Anastasia. “A Tale of Two Collections: The Papers of Herbert Bolton and George Hammond.” Newsletter of the Friends of the Bancroft Library (Spring 2009): 6 – 7.

  Kessell, John L. “Bolton's Coronado.” Journal of the Southwest 32 (Spring 1990): 83 – 96.

  Langum, David J. “Herbert Eugene Bolton.” In Historians of the American Frontier: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Edited by John R. Wunder. New York: Greenwood, 1988.

  Lockwood, Frank. “Adventurous Scholarship: Dr. Herbert E. Bolton.” Catholic World, 138 (November 1933): 185 – 194.

  Magnaghi, Russell M. 1975. “Herbert E. Bolton and the Sources for American Indian Studies.” Western Historical Quarterly 6 (January 1975): 33 – 46.