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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
Manufactured in the United States of America
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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
