Greater America: Essays in Honor of Herbert Eugene Bolton

Freeport, N.Y: Books for Libraries Press, 1968, 1945. First Edition. ix, 723 pages maps, portraits 22 cm; bibliographical references. 3 lbs. Numerous b&w folding maps. Fine in near fine(-) spine-sunned and edge-worn jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: LCCN: 68-14905

Festschrift for the founder of Spanish borderlands history, presented by his former graduate students. Bolton (1870–1953) was born in Wilton, Wisconsin, and raised on a farm near Tomah. He studied under Frederick Jackson Turner at Madison, alongside Carl Becker and Guy Stanton Ford, then took his doctorate at Pennsylvania under John Bach McMaster (1899). After the University of Texas and a brief move to Stanford in 1909, Berkeley drew him in 1911 with its newly acquired library of Hubert Howe Bancroft. He made the Bancroft Library a great research center for American history and raised the history department, which he chaired from 1919 to 1940, to the front rank. His undergraduate course, History of the Americas, drew up to a thousand students a week, and he supervised more than 300 master’s theses and 104 doctoral dissertations. That output of students accounts for this volume and its predecessor, New Spain and the Anglo-American West (1932). Although Turner’s student, he broke with Turner’s frontier thesis and argued for a holistic history of the hemisphere, the so-called “Bolton Theory.” He set out that case in his 1932 presidential address to the American Historical Association (AHA) in Toronto, which supplies the volume’s name. Major works include the Carnegie Guide to the Mexican archives (1913), Spanish Exploration in the Southwest (1916), Rim of Christendom on Kino (1936), Coronado (1949) and Pageant in the Wilderness on the Escalante expedition (1950). In 1937 he authenticated the newly found “Drake’s Plate of Brass,” later shown to be a hoax, and it remains on display at the Bancroft. Twenty-seven essays and fourteen original maps, each essay closing with a bibliographical note, ranging across colonial Latin America, the Spanish frontier and the wider Americas, followed by a carefully compiled bibliography of Bolton’s writings. Reviewed by Donald Rowland in the Journal of Economic History (1947).Contents: The Treaty of Tordesillas and the diplomatic background of American History / Charles Edward Nowell -- The Stanish horse in Peru before 1550 / John James Johnson -- Potosi,́ a South American mining frontier / Gwendolin Ballantine Cobb -- Early Spanish voyages from America to the Far East, 1527-1565 / Iona Stuessy Wright -- Silk culture in colonial Mexico / Woodrow Wilson Borah -- Educational foundations of the Jesuits in colonial Hispanic America / Jerome Vincent Jacobsen -- Gonzalo de Tapia (1561-1594), Jesuit pioneer in New Spain / William Eugene Shiels -- Hernando de Santareń, S.J., pioneer and diplomat, 1565-1616 / Catherine Mary McShane -- Pioneer Jesuit missionaries on the central plateau of New Spain / Peter Masten Dunne -- Pioneer Jesuit missionaries on the pacific slope of New Spain / John Francis Bannon -- Diego Martiʹnez de Hurdaide, defender of Spain's pacific coast frontier / Harry Prescott Johnson -- Non-Spanish Jesuits in Spain's American colonies / Theodore Edward Truetlein -- Riots in seventeenth-century Mexico City: A study of social and economic conditions / Chester Lyle Guthrie -- The Pima uprising of 1751: a study of Spanish-Indian relations on the frontier of New Spain / Russell Charles Ewing -- An Indian removal policy in Spanish Louisiana / Mary A. O'Callaghan -- Negro slavery in New Granada / James Ferguson King -- The enchanted city of the Caesars, Eldorado of southern South America / Robert Hale Shields -- Spanish colonization in Patagonia, 1778-1783 / James Stewart Cunningham -- Central America under Mexico, 1821-1823 / Thomas Edward Downey -- Nez Perce ́and Shoshoni influence on northwest history / Francis D. Haines -- New England traders in Spanish and Mexican California / Adele Ogden -- Larkin, Anglo-American businessman in Mexican California / Robert J. Parker -- The Mormons in the opening of the western forntier / Milton Reed Hunter -- The Alaskan-Canadian boundary / Donald Curtis Davidson -- Mail steamers link the Americas, 1840-1890 / John Haskell Kemble -- San Diego and the struggle for southern transcontinental railroad terminus / Lewis Burt Lesley -- Gold rushes and their significance in the history of the trans-Mississippi west / Charles Gregory Crampton.