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AMS 105 |
Western Historians and American Historiography (historiography=body of historical writing; later it includes methods of research)
| Early Spanish, Russian, French and Anglo-American writers/chroniclers 1542-1840 |
| Name/Dates | Affiliations | Area/Topic | Notes |
| Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez (1498-1543) | Portuguese for Spain | Guatamala/ California first European explorer | died on channel Is |
| Fr. Crespi/Portola | |||
| Eusebio Francisco Kino | |||
| DeSemet | |||
| James Fenimore Cooper | |||
| Washington Irving | |||
| Francis Parkman |
| Classic Western Historians 1820-1920 |
| Name/Dates | Affiliations | Area/Topic | Notes |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) | book collector and seller in San Francisco, CA |
California, Southwest and Northwest | published massive 40 vols. sold his library to U. of California |
| Josiah Royce (1855- ) | Harvard U. philosophy | Anglo-California, Fremont, gold rush | |
| Frederick Jackson Turner (1861- ) | U. of Wisconsin | 'Frontier thesis' 1891-92 ; early social and economic history | |
| Frederick Logan Paxson (1877-1948) | Harvard; U. of Wisconsin | popular writer and successor to Turner | |
| Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) | U. of Texas | 'aridity and environmental influence' the Great Plains | Texas; pastoral and hydraulic modes |
| Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870-1953) | U. of Penn.; U. of Texas; U.C. Berkeley | Hispanic West; pro Anglo; California missions | accessed archives in Mexico City; Curator of UC Bancroft Library 1919- |
| James C. Malin (1893- ) | U. of Kansas | grasslands; US Indian policy | |
| Recent Western Historians |
| Name/Dates | Affiliations | Area/Topic | Notes |
| Henry Nash Smith (1906- ) | American Studies; symbols and images of land and nature |
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| Ray Allen Billington ( 1903- ) | social history, evolutionary model added to Turner thesis | ||
| Earl Pomeroy (1915- ) | U. of Oregon | Pacific Slope; changing West | |