The Spanish borderlands: a chronicle of old Florida and the Southwest

422 Pages·1996·1.67 MB·English

by  Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of New Mexico. Center for the American West

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The Spanish Borderlands
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HISTORIANS OF THE FRONTIER AND AMERICAN WEST
RICHARD W. ETULAIN
SERIES EDITOR
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The Spanish Borderlands
A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest
Herbert E. Bolton
INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT L. HURTADO
PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW
MEXICO CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WEST
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE
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©1921, 1948 BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
©TRANSFERRED FROM UNITED STATES PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION TO HERBERT BROOK, 1982.
©FOREWORD 1996 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
FIRST UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
BOLTON, HERBERT EUGENE, 18701953.
THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS: A CHRONICLE OF OLD FLORIDA AND THE SOUTHWEST/
HERBERT E. BOLTON; INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT L. HURTADO
FIRST UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS PAPERBACK ED.
P. CM. (HISTORIANS OF THE FRONTIER AND AMERICAN WEST)
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1921.
WITH NEW INTRODUCTION.
"PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WEST."
INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES AND INDEX.
ISBN 0-8263-1681-6 (PBK.)
1. SOUTHWESTERN STATESDISCOVERY AND EXPLORATIONSPANISH.
2. FLORIDADISCOVERY AND EXPLORATIONSPANISH.
3. FLORIDAHISTORYTO 1565.
4. SOUTHWEST, NEWHISTORYTO 1848.
5. SPAINCOLONIESAMERICA.
I. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WEST.
II. TITLE. III. SERIES.
E123.B72 1996
970.01'6-DC20 95-24340
CIP
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Contents
Introduction to the Paperback Edition, ix
Albert L. Hurtado
Preface xlv
The Explorers
I. Ponce De Léon, Ayllón, and Narváez 1
II. Cabeza De Vaca 26
III. Hernando De Soto 46
IV. Coronado, Cabrillo, and Vizcaíno 79
The Colonies
V. Florida 120
VI. New Mexico 165
VII. The Jesuits on the Pacific Slope 188
VIII. Texas 207
IX. Louisiana 232
X. California 258
Bibliographical Note 297
Index 305
Illustrations Following Page 164
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Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Herbert E. Bolton's
The Spanish Borderlands
Albert L. Hurtado
"Pray when may I expect that long-delayed document? September has
gone into the remote past, and I was to have the manuscript before the
end of the month. Please do not keep me waiting longer."
1 Thus in 1917 the exasperated Allen Johnson, editor of the Yale
University Press "Chronicles of America" series, begged Herbert E.
Bolton to send him a long-promised manuscript on Spain in the
United States. But Bolton would make him wait for more months and
then for years for the finished product. The delays brought from
Johnson's typewriter a stream of pleas, threats, and insults that he
vainly hoped would prod Bolton into action. Bolton, however, was
committed to more projects than he could have reasonably hoped to
accomplish in the time that he had promised. And worse, Bolton
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wanted to write a more detailed (and duller) book than the concise,
sprightly volume that Johnson required for the series to reach a
general audience. As sometimes happens, the editor played a major
role in shaping the final product over the author's strenuous
objections. In the end, Johnson got the book that he wanted, a brief
readable treatment of Bolton's field that was the classic general
account for decades, and Bolton got what he needed a lively account
of the Spanish presence in the United States that earned a wide
popular audience.
The publication process brought together three powerful personalities,
Bolton, Johnson, and Constance Lindsay Skinner, whose task it was to
revise the manuscript that Bolton had prepared. Bolton did not know
Skinner's identity until the book was about to be published, but that
did not keep him from engaging her in spirited arguments through
Johnson. This three-sided debate was about writing style, and it was
also about a fundamental difference in historical perspective between
Bolton, Johnson, and Skinner. Bolton wanted to provide a Spanish
perspective on American history