Albert L.
Hurtado
· HERBERT EUGENE BOLTON
Historian of the American Borderlands
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hurtado, Albert L., 1946–.
Herbert Eugene Bolton : historian of the American borderlands / Albert L. Hurtado.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-520-27216-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870–1953. 2. Historians—United States—Biography. 3. Mexican-American Border Region—Historiography. 4. United States—Territorial expansion—Historiography. I. Title.
E175.5.B66H87 2012
907.2092—dc23
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2011035056
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To the memory of David J. Weber
CONTENTS
2. A Gathering at Lake Mendota
7. Teachers and Students—Worlds Apart
10. Exploration, Empire, and Patrimony
12. Bury My Heart at Corte Madera
13. Western Revolt and Retirement
Afterword: The Debatable Legacy
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Bolton as a high school student
2. Bolton the school teacher
3. Bolton and his roommate at the University of Wisconsin
4. Charles Homer Haskins and Frederick Jackson Turner at Johns Hopkins University
5. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California
6. Henry Morse Stephens at Bohemian grove
7. University of California Faculty Club, 1902
8. Doe Library under construction
9. The Bolton family, c. 1919
10. Bolton and Father Zephyrin Engelhardt, c. 1915
11. Bolton with knights and a few ladies at his round table
12. Bolton with a gigantic map of the Americas
13. Bolton atop an Anasazi ruin
14. Bolton with a Navajo guide at the Grand Canyon
15. Bolton salutes his companions
16. Bolton taking notes in Mexico
17. Somewhere in Mexico with George Hammond and Aubrey Neasham
18. Bolton in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club, c. 1948
19. Frederick Jackson Turner at the Huntington Library
20. “Captain” Reginald