Colorado College Special Collections
Biography
Archer Butler Hulbert was born January 26, 1873, in Benning¬ton, Vermont, the son of Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Woodward. His father was a clergyman and president of Middlebury College in Vermont from 1875 to 1880. His older brother Henry Woodward Hulbert was also a clergyman and educator. Other family members included a brother Homer B. and sisters Gertrude H. Wylie, Anne H. Boehne, and Mary H. Rogers.
Archer Hulbert was educated at St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont where he was a classmate of Calvin Coolidge. He graduat¬ed from Marietta College in Ohio in 1895. Hulbert also studied at Western Reserve, Chicago, Wisconsin, Columbia and Harvard Universities as well as in London and Paris. At Harvard Hulbert studied under Frederick Jackson Turner whose frontier thesis he later popularized in his books. In 1929 Hulbert was awarded an honorary doctorate from Middlebury College in Vermont, and in 1930, Marietta College offered him an honorary L. H. D.
After graduating from Marietta College, Hulbert became vice principal of Putnam Military Academy in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1897 he joined his brother Homer in Seoul, Korea, and became editor of The Korean Independent. Upon returning to America in 1898 Hulbert became interested in pioneer migrations. He made a special study of trails and roads over which early expeditions and pioneer movements were made. His first book on the subject was Red Men's Roads published in 1900. The Old National Road was published the following year.
Hulbert's first teaching job was at the University of Chicago for a summer session in 1904. In the fall of that year he returned to Marietta College as professor of American history, a position he held for fourteen years. Shortly after arriving at Marietta College, Hulbert completed his sixteen volume series on the historic highways of America.
During his years at Marietta, Professor Hulbert did research on George Washington, lectured on the economics of good roads for the United States Department of Agriculture, and served as archivist for the Harvard Commission on Western History from 1912 1916. He also organized the Mariettta Historical Commission.
About 1917 Hulbert began lecturing for the War Work Council of YMCA. From 1918 to 1920 he taught at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. During this period he developed a syllabus for teaching about U.S. involvement in World War I.
In 1920 Hulbert was appointed professor of history at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He interested himself in the western pioneer trails over which he traveled gathering notes and reminiscences of the pioneers still living. In 1925 his friend and fellow Vermonter, Philip Battell Stewart, a trustee of Colorado College, and Stewart's wife Frances Cowles Stewart, founded the Stewart Commission of Western History and appointed Hulbert director. As director Hulbert initiated an ambitious project under the general title of Overland to the Pacific. By 1933 three volumes of the series had been published. Five other volumes were completed after his death under the editorship of his wife Dorothy Printup Hulbert (later Dorothy Bryson).
In 1929 the Vermont Historical Commission compiled a bibliography of Hulbert's works. The bibliography contains about 100 items including larger works, pamphlets, and periodical contributions. When Hulbert published Forty Niners in 1931 he was awarded the Atlantic Monthly Prize of $5000.00. As a result of his work in publishing the Crown Collection of American maps he was made a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Besides the professorships Hulbert held lectureships at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Western Reserve and Wisconsin Universities, and Pomona College. He was a member of several historical associations.
Archer Butler Hulbert married Mary Ellizabeth Stacy, September 10, 1901. Two daughters were born to them, Marian Elizabeth (Mrs. Floyd R. Parks) and Katherine Wheelock (formerly Mrs. Hugh Honnen, now Dr. Katherine W. Wheelock). Mary Elizabeth died in 1920. In 1923 Hulbert married Miss Dorothy Printup, an instructor in classical languages at Colorado College. They had two daughters, Nancy (Mrs. Karl R. Olsen) and Joanne (Mrs. Robert W. Yeager).
Hulbert died at his home in Colorado Springs, December 24, 1933, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in the same city.
Sources: Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1, pp. 442 443; Who's Who in America, 1932 33; Colorado Springs Gazette, Dec. 25, 1933; American Historical Review, April 1934; The Marietta Alumnus, January 1934; Who Was Who Among North American Authors, p. 747.
Chronology
1873 Born, January 26, in Bennington, Vermont.
1895 Graduated from Marietta College, Ohio.
1897 98 Edited The Korean Independent at Seoul.
1898 04 Literary work.
1901 Married Mary Elizabeth Stacy.
1904 Lecturer at University of Chicago, summer session.
1904 18 Professor of American History at Marietta College.
1905 14 Lecturer on economics of good roads for the Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agri¬culture.
1909 University Extension Society of Pittsburgh, Chautauqua Institution.
1911 Instructor at Columbia University, summer session.
1912 16 Archivist for Harvard Commission on Western History.
1917 18 Lecturer for War Work Council, YMCA.
1918 20 Professor at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
1920 33 Professor of history at Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
1923 Married Dorothy Printup.
1925 33 Director of the Stewart Commission on Western History.
1933 Died, December 24, in Colorado Springs.
Archie Butler Herbert Papers, Part 1, 1873 1933, Ms 0130
Gift of Dorothy Bryson, 1979. Finding aid by Barbara L. Neilon, 1982. Most recently revised 2024.
Scope and Content
The Archer Butler Hulbert Papers consist of a wide variety of materials covering most of Hulbert's life. Family and business correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, account books, photographic prints, lantern slides, printed and original maps, postal cards, periodicals, notes, publications, published and unpublished manuscripts, and memorabilia are contained in the collection.
Family correspondence forms a major part of the collection. Letters from Hulbert to his parents and siblings, their letters to him, and to each other are included. Hulbert's childhood letters are in the collection as well as letters received by his widow at the time of his death.
Business correspondence regarding his various publications are a part of the collection, as well as correspondence of the Stewart Commission on Western History. A few of the letters are from well known Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt, Charles G. Dawes, Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson, Owen Wister, Emerson Hough, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Frederick Jackson Turner and others. Numerous letters to librarians, historians, and curators of historical societies throughout the country are part of the collection.
Hulbert's writings concentrated on canals, rivers, roads, trails, forts, the life of George Washington, and the westward movement. During his later years his attention centered on the publication of documentary materials related to the westward movement such as the letters of Narcissa Whitman. Thus, the collection contains not only the manuscripts of published works in these subject areas, but numerous typescripts and photocopies of documents which he planned to publish. Postal cards, lantern slides, maps, and photographs are also illustrative of these subject areas.
Of particular interest are the items related to Hulbert's year in Korea, 1897 98, during which he was editor of The Korean Independent. A scrapbook containing clippings of the editorials Hulbert wrote during that period is part of the collection. Also included are some items written by Hulbert's brother Homer during the same period.
For several of his earlier works, Hulbert maintained scrapbooks of clippings of reviews, correspondence, announcements and memorabilia connected with his publications. Eleven of these scrapbooks are in the collection.
INVENTORY
Note: Books and some maps were separately cataloged. Poor-condition nitrate based film negatives were discarded. 328 glass slides were separately cataloged as Illustrations for Crown Collection of Maps and Forty-Niners (SL 81 06g).
I CORRESPONDENCE
Family Letters
Box 1
Letters from Archer Butler Hulbert
Fd 1 To Mary Hulbert, 1883 1886 26 items
Fd 2 To Mary Hulbert, 1887 22 items
Fd 3 To Mary Hulbert, 1888 33 items
Fd 4 To Mary Hulbert, 1889 1890 27 items
Fd 5 To Mary Hulbert, 1891 12 items
Fd 6 To Mary Hulbert, 1892 1894 22 items
Fd 7 To Mary Hulbert, 1895 1904 28 items
Fd 8 To Mary Hulbert, 1907 1919 22 items
Fd 9 To Mary Hulbert, [n.d.] 32 items
Fd 10 To Calvin Hulbert, 1883 1890 21 items
Fd 11 To Calvin Hulbert, 1891 1916 39 items
Fd 12 To his family, 1888 1899 31 items
Fd 13 To his family, 1900 1905 36 items
Fd 14 To his family, 1906 1910 20 items
Fd 15 To his family, 1911 1920 34 items
Fd 16 To his family, [n.d.] 54 items
Fd 17 To his family, [n.d.] 20 items
Box 2
Fd 18 To Anne Hulbert, 1883 1891 6 items
Fd 19 To Gertrude Hulbert, 1886 1 items
Fd 20 To Henry Hulbert, 1884 1898, 1912 10 items
Fd 21 To Mary Hulbert, 1903 1911 3 items; To unidentified family members, 1897 1900 8 items
Fd 22 Fragments 3 items
Letters to Archer Butler Hulbert
Fd 23 From Mary Hulbert, 1885 1890 27 items
Fd 24 From Mary Hulbert, 1899 1901 19 items
Fd 25 From Mary Hulbert, 1902 22 items
Fd 26 From Mary Hulbert, 1903 37 items
Fd 27 From Mary Hulbert, 1904 17 items
Fd 28 From Mary Hulbert, 1905 19 items
Fd 29 From Mary Hulbert, 1906 1908 24 items
Fd 30 From Mary Hulbert, 1909 1914 24 items
Fd 31 From Mary Hulbert, 1915 1916 16 items
Fd 32 From Mary Hulbert, 1917 1918 31 items
Fd 33 From Mary Hulbert, [n.d.] 40 items
Fd 34 From Mary Hulbert, [n.d.] 26 items
Fd 35 From Mary Hulbert, [n.d.] 58 items
Box 3
Fd 36 From Calvin Hulbert, 1881 1899 17 items
Fd 37 From Calvin Hulbert, 1900 1904 41 items
Fd 38 From Calvin Hulbert, 1905 1907 44 items
Fd 39 From Calvin Hulbert, 1908 1916 48 items
Fd 40 From Anne Hulbert, 1890 2 items
Fd 41 From Gertrude Hulbert, 1885 1933 36 items
Fd 42 From Henry Hulbert, 1880 1899 17 items
Fd 43 From Henry Hulbert, 1900 1905 24 items
Fd 44 From Henry Hulbert, 1906 1915 44 items
Fd 45 From Henry Hulbert, 1916 1933 42 items
Fd 46 From Homer Hulbert, 1900 1930 67 items digitized 2024
Fd 47 From Homer Hulbert, [n.d.] 16 items
Fd 48 From Homer Hulbert, [n.d.] 50 items
Fd 49 From Homer Hulbert, [n.d.] 45 items digitized 2024
Box 4
Correspondence among other family members arranged by author.
Fd 50 Anne Hulbert, 1885, Gertrude Hulbert, 1881 3 items
Fd 51 Calvin Hubert, 1887 1904 4 items
Fd 52 Henry Hulbert, 1901 1930 7 items
Fd 53 Homer Hulbert, 1904 1934 8 items digitized 2024
Fd 54 Marian Hulbert, 1915 1920 7 items
Fd 55 Mary Hulbert, 1833 36 16 items
Fd 56 Mrs. Calvin Hulbert, 1905 1917 9 items
Correspondence with others
Fd 57 Edwin Rogers, 1899, 1901 1917 61 items
Fd 58 Miscellaneous authors, 1884 1931 8 items
Stewart Commission Correspondence, 1924 1930
Fds 59 72 Outgoing and incoming, 340 items arranged alphabetically then chronologically.
Box 5
Stewart Commission Correspondence, 1931 1933.
Fds 73-84 Incoming, arranged chronologi¬cally.
II WRITINGS OF ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT & SUPPORTING MATERIALS
Box 6
Fd 85 "The Great War" Lecture notes, clippings 30 items
Fd 86 "The Great War" Notebooks 11 items
Fd 87 88"Marietta Historical Collections" v. 4 Manuscript with photograph of Col. John May 3 items
Fd 89 Miscellaneous items related to Marietta Historical Collections 5 items
Box 7
Charles Greene Materials
Fd 90 Diaries 4 items
Fd 91 Clippings 9 items
Fd 92 Original letters to Greene, 1868-190515 items
Fd 93 Manuscript 1 item
The Forty Niners
Fd 94 Manuscript with notes for a talk and package of book contracts 7 items
Other Writings
Fd 95 "Wagon Road from Defiance to the Colorado River" Typescript of Exec. Docs., 1st sess, 35 Cong. 1 item
Fd 96 "Report of Edward F. Beale, Esq. Relating to The Construction of Wagon Road from Fort Smith, Kansas, to the Colorado River" (Typescript) 1 item
Fd 97 Niles Register, v. 53. (Typescript) 1 item
Fd 98 9 "Journal of an Expedition from Santa Fe, N.M. to San Diego, Cal. In 1849" (Typescript) 1 item
Box 8
Fd 100 Documents of General B.L.E. Bonneville 1 item
Fd 101 "Correspondence with the Governor of Mexico, in Relation to Expulsion of Citizens of U.S. from upper California." (Typescript of Senate Docs. 28th Cong., 1844) 1 item
Fd 102 "Annual Message and Accompanying Documents, 1849 1850." (Typescript) 1 item
Fd 103 "Spanish Expeditions into Territory Now Colorado" Howbert transcript from Spanish Archives (typescript); "Fosteriana: Thoughts, Reflections, and Criticisms of How They Started in Search of Quivira and What Happened on the Way." 2 items
Fd 104 "The First Wagon Train on the Oregon Trail" 1 item
Fd 105 Illustrative Documents for U.S. History 14 items
Fd 106 Untitled manuscripts 2 items
Fd 107 "Southwest on the Turquoise Trail" manuscript 1 item
Fd 108 "Pike's Recovered Maps" by Stephan Harding Hart with photographs of Zebulon Pike 4 items
Fd 109 "The Origin of the Oregon Missions" manuscript 1 item
Fd 110 Forsyth Manuscript 1 item
Box 9
Fd 111 118 Documentary materials for Overland to the Pacific, v. 6, chapters 1 7 with appendix 11 items
Fd 119 "Route Across the Rocky Mountains with a Description of Oregon & California..." by Overton Johnson and Wm.H. Winter, 1846 (typescript) 1 item
Fd 120 122 Manuscript: "The Oregon Crusade" with supporting documents 3 items
Box 10
Fd 123 "The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California" by Lansford W. Hastings, 1845 (copy) 1 item
Fd 124 "Journal of Captain Abraham R. Johnston" (typescript) 1 item
Fd 125 "The First Emigrant Train to California" by John Bidwell (2 copies) 2 items
Fd 126 "Fremont in the Conquest of California" by John Bidwell (typescript) 1 item
Fd 127 "Life in California before the gold discovery" by John Bidwell (typescript) 2 items
Fd 128 "Notes of J. Abert to Lieut W.H. Emory" Oct. 8, 1846. Exec. Docs, 1st sess, 30th Cong. Ex. Doc. No. 41. Appendix No. 6 7 1 item
Fd 129 Niles Register, Oct. 31, 1846 Extracts from Journal of Lieut. Emory (typescript) 1 item
Fd 130 Notes 26 items
Fd 131 Bonneville letters (copies) 34 items
Fd 132 "Letters written to his wife" by Dr. John Thompson in 1849 1850 (typescript) 1 item
Fd 133 "Report of Samuel Parker..." 1835 1837 (2 copies) 2 items
Box 11
Oregon publications
Fd 134 John Ball letters & correlated papers, 1832 1834 1 item
Fd 135 Whitman Greene letters & related papers 13 items
Fd 136 Miscellaneous items 3 items
Fd 137 Dorothy Hulbert Bryson's workbook for volumes on Whitman; "The Oregon Missions as shown in the Walker letters, 1839 1851 2 items
Fd 138 Files of Classmate numbers [1936] containing a story of Winifred Hulbert on the Oregon Trail 5 items
Fd 139 Projections for Overland to the Pacific Series 16 items
Fd 140 "Expedition of the Dragoons to the West" (typescript) 1 item
Fd 141 "Rocky Mountain Correspondence" "Irving's Influence on American Opinions of the West" "Battle of the Fur Traders with the Indians Near the Rocky Mountains" (manuscripts) 3 items
Fd 142 "Bonneville's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains" "Captain Bonneville's Letter"
"Captain Bonneville" "Colonel Bonneville on Protection of the Indian Trade" (manuscripts) 4 items
Fd 143 "The First Overland Trip to California" "Jedediah Strong Smith" "The John Ball Correspondence" (manuscripts) 3 items
Fd 144 Untitled manuscripts 6 items
Fd 145 Benson's diary (in 2 notebooks) 2 items
Fd 146 "Exploration & Survey for the Pacific Railway" "Davis Memorial volume in the U.S.
Senate" "Senate Doc., 2d session, No. 39" 3 items
Fd 147 Other Oregon materials 6 items
Fd 148 "A Report on Edward Fitzgerald Beale's Camel Expedition..." by Lydia Novak 1 item
Box 12
Fd 149 Copies of clippings 29 items
Fd 150 "Sketch of a journey to the Rocky Mountains and to the Columbia River in North America" (copies) 2 items
Fd 151 Clippings of small maps 31 items
Fd 152 Letters and journal relating to the Pacific Railroad Survey (typescript) 20 items
Fd 153 Letters and journal relating to the Pacific Railroad Survey (transcripts) 4 items
Fd 154 Letters and journal relating to the Pacific Railroad Survey (typescripts) 1 item
Fd 155 "The Bedroom on the Lark" 1 item
Fd 156 "The Homestretch" (original title) "The Runaway Girl" 2 items
Fd 157 "The Runaway Girl" (typescript) 1 item
Fd 158 "No Foe in Shining Armor" 1 item
Fd 159 "Ripley, Harrison and Tyler, Too" 1 item
Fd 160 "Love Never Faileth" 1 item
Fd 161 "King of the Land of Do Without" "White Wolf" 2 items
Box 13
Fd 162 "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" 1 item
Fd 163 "The River" 1 item
Fd 164 "The Homestretch" "The Catspaw" "The Tag End of Aristocracy 3 items
Fd 165 166 "After dinner stuff" (clippings & notes)
Fd 167 Unidentified pages from manuscripts 8 items
Box 14
Fd 168 "The Frontier in American History" 1 item
Fd 169 "A Pennsylvania Spy" 1 item
Fd 170 "Western Shipbuilding" (2 copies) 2 items
Fd 171 Notes
Fd 172 Early writings 16 items
Fd 173 Childhood poetry 16 items
Fd 174 "Gethsemane: A Meditation" 1 item
Fd 175 Clippings and illustrations 65 items
Box 16
Fd 176 "The Romance of American Rivers" 2 items
Fd 177 "The Transportation as a Factor in Growth of Chicago" 2 items
Fd 178 "The Steamboat & The Great Plains Empire” 2 items
Fd 179 "The Ohio River" 2 items
Fd 180 "The Washington We Forget" 1 item
Fd 181 "Washington's Heritage of Executive Ability 1 item
Fd 182 "Great Meadows and Virginia's Bounty Promise" 1 item
Fd 183 "Locating the Virginia Regiment Lands” 1 item
Fd 184 "The New West and the New Washington" 1 item
Fd 185 Notes for Lectures 18 items
Fd 186 "Thoroughfares of the Old Ohio" 1 item
Fd 187 "A University for Elderly People" 3 items
Fd 188 "A Barrack Room Story of the West" 2 items
Fd 189 "The Black Forest of America" 1 item
Fd 190 "The New Education" "The Patriot" "The Orchard That Saved Boston" "A Country Without a Man" "Pay Dirt" 5 items
Fd 191 "Captain Augustine Washington" "George Washington: The First Detroit Booster"
"The Reformation in Russia" "General John Forbes" (2 copies) 5 items
Fd 192 "The Auto Guyed" "The Viled Recommendation Foundation" "Alligator horses"
"Wet Hoey and Dry Baloney in the Light of American History" "Reducting the Powers of the Supreme Court" 5 items
Fd 193 "The Yankee Characteristics of the Washingtons" “How the Mississippi Found Her
Master" "Undeveloped Facts in the Life of Marcus Whitman" "The Lay of the Lone Prospector"
"The Increasing Debt of History to Science" 5 items
Fd 194 "Cowboys and cowboy songs" "Cowboy songs" "Mode of Determining the Astronomical
Positions and the Elements of Magnetism at Temporary Camps" "Washington's Chartier Farm"
"Business Efficiency: A Factor for Unity" 5 items
Box 16
Fd 195 John Boyn Materials "The John Boyn Story: Rightful King of Servia" Includes correspondence from Chedo Mijatovich Dec. 1, 1902 Feb. 8, 1904, Letters from John Boyn, Mar. 17, 1903 Sept.3, 1903, "Our Prize Camp Fire Story" Notes, clippings, etc. 24 items
Fd 196 Boyn manuscript & article 2 items
Fd 197 Publications of Rufus Putnam Association Manuscript: "Senator Hoar's Historical Interest" 2 items
Fd 198 "The Habit of Going to the Devil" "Bill Hammond's Boy (2 copies) 5 items
Fd 199 Lecture Notes 7 items
Fd 200 Washington materials, clippings & articles 16 items
Fd 201 Lincoln materials 29 items
Box 17
Publications
Fd 202 Clippings from journals 16 items
Duniway, Clyde A. "Daniel Webster and the West." (March 1928): pp. 3 15
Ellison, Joseph. "The Sentiment for a Pacific Republic, 1843 1862." pp. 94 118. [no source, n.d.]
Hard, William. "The Disappearance of the Great American Desert." Munsey's Magazine [n.d.]: 71 75
Henderson, Archibald. "Creative Forces in Westward Expansion: Henderson and Boone." pp. 86 107. [no source, n.d.]
Huntington, Ellsworth. "Changes of Climate and History." American Historical Review 18 (January 1913): 213 232.
Lee, John Thomas. "Josiah Gregg & Dr. George Engelmann." American Antiquarian Society (October 1931): 355 404.
Lee, John Thomas. "New Found Letters of Josiah Gregg, Santa Fe Trader and Historian." American Antiquarian Society (April 1930): 47 68.
Leffmann, Henry. "The Real Declaration of Independence: a Study of Colonial History under a Modern Theory." Reprinted from Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1923: 1 14 (incomplete)
The New Historians: a Booklet about authors of the Chronicles of America. Yale University Press.
Newton, A. Edward. "Westward." Atlantic Monthly: 527 537. [n.d.]
Parish, John Carl. "Reflections on the Nature of the Westward Movement." Yale Review 15 [n.d.]: 98 112.
Santa Fe Trail: Brief Summary of the Santa Fe Trail through Kansas with report of the Committee Appointed to Prepare a Correct Map. Reprint from 18th Biennial Report of Kansas State Historical Society, 1911 1912.
Seville, Janet E. "Sidesaddling from Coast to Coast." Women and Missions (June 1936): 93 95.
Smythe, William E. "The Conquest of Arid America." 85 99 [no source, n.d.}
Turner, Frederick Jackson. "Geographical Influences in American Political History:" 213 232 [no source, n.d.]
Wister, Owen. "Destiny at Drybone." Harper's New Monthly Magazine: 60 81. [n.d.]
Young, F.G. "Journal & Report by Dr. Marcus Whitman of his Tour of Exploration with Rev. Samuel Parker in 1835 beyond the Rocky Mountains:" 239 257. [no source]
Fd 203 Miscellaneous publications 3 items
"Documents relating to Zachariah Cox" ed. by Isaac Joslin Cox. Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio 8, 1913.
Sioussat, St. George L. "Duff Green's England and the United States' with an introductory Study of American Opposition to the Quintuple Treaty of 1841." American Antiquarian Society Oct. 1930): 175 276.
Goodwin, Cardinal. "Union Sentiment and the West in the Decades of the Forties" [no source, n.d.]
Fd 204 Publications of the Oregon Pioneer Association 5 items
Constitution and Quotations from the Register of the Oregon Pioneer Association; together with the Annual Address... Salem, 1875.
Transactions of the Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1885.
Fd 205 "Shipbuilding on the Ohio, 1800 1808" 1 item
Fd 206 Publications of Frederick Jackson 4 items Turner consists of four booklets with
clippings of Turner and others.
No. 1. Turner, F.J. "The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin..." Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1891.
No. 2. Stout, A.B. "Prehistoric Earthworks in Wisconsin." Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, pp. 1 2.
Turner, F.J. "The Place of the Ohio Valley in American History." pp.32 47
Morton, J.C. "A Vanishing Race." pp. 48 56.
Keeler, L.E. "Some Local History." pp. 57 60.
Hills, A. "Delaware in the Days of 1812." pp. 61 64.
Turner, F.J. "The Problem of the West." Atlantic Monthly 78 (Sept. 1896).
No. 3 Turner, F.J. "Contributions of the West to American Democracy." Atlantic (Jan. 1903): 83 96.
Turner, F.J. "The Diplomatic Contest for the Mississippi Valley." Atlantic (May 1904): 676 692.
Turner, F.J. "The Rise and Fall of New France." Chautauquan (October 1896): 31 38. Part Two in Chautauquan (Dec. 1896): 295 300.
Turner, F.J. "The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History." Proceedings of the
Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1909 1910, pp.159 184.
No. 4. Turner, F.J. "The Middle West." International Monthly (Dec. 1901): 794 820.
Box 18
Correspondence with Mrs. Hulbert concerning publications
Fd 207 1918 1923 61 items
Fd 208 1924 1928 24 items
Fd 209 1929 44 items
Fd 210 January April, 1930 31 items
Fd 211 May December, 1930 36 items
Fd 212 1933 12 items
Fd 213 1934 39 items
Fd 214 1935 22 items
Fd 215 1936 17 items
Fd 216 1937 10 items
Correspondence related to Overland, 1932 34
Fd 217 February, 1932 April, 1933 28 items
Fd 218 May July, 1933 35 items
Fd 219 August November, 1933 25 items
Fd 220 December, 1933 June, 1934 19 items
Special Correspondence
Fd 221 "Autographed Letters" 1900 1933 55 items
Adams, Herbert B.
Ayer, Edward E.
Barker, S. Omar
Bruce, H. Addington
Burr, George L.
Channing, Edward
Coolidge, Calvin
Curtis, Charles
Dawes, Charles G. (3)
D ? , Harry M.
Duniway, C.A.
Dunning, William A.
Fairand (?), Livingston
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Ford, Worthington D.
Hall, G. Stanley (2)
Hanna, Charles A.
Hart, Albert Bushnell (3)
Harvey, Charles M.
Herrick, Myron T.
Holland, W.J.
Hough, Emerson
Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe
Hughes, Charles E.
Hughes, Rupert
Hulbert, H.C.
Jackson, W.H.
Jordan, Harry P.
Naylor, James Ball
Nelson, Thomas Forsyth
Pewedde, Stephen B.L.
Porter, Peter A.
Putname, G.H.
Roosevelt, Theodore (3)
Scott, Frank T.
Shoup, Oliver H.
Sloane, William
Stowe, Beecher
Thwing, Charles F.
Watson, Frederick
White, Stewart Edward
White, W.A.
Wilson, Woodrow
Wister, Owen
Unidentified (3)
Homestead Certificate No. 13080, Watertown, South Dakota, signed by Theodore Roosevelt
Fd 222 Letters from Frederick Jackson Turner 7 items
Box 19
Personal Materials, Miscellaneous
Fd 223 Biographical information 10 items
Fd 224 Stewart Commission mailing lists and contracts 8 items
Fd 225 Miscellaneous manuscripts 9 items
Fd 226 Miscellaneous manuscripts 34 items
Fd 227 Clippings, primarily book reviews 48 items
Fd 228 Photographs for publications 54 items
Manuscripts for books
Box 20 Narcissa Whitman Letters 1 item
Box 21 Marcus Whitman: Twice a Martyr Includes notes and documentary materials 13 items
Box 22 Rails Across the Rockies 1 item
Box 23 Junior History of the United States 1 item
Box 24 The Forty Niners 1 item
Diaries and Notebooks
Box 25 Diaries, 1885 1920 Appointment book style annual volumes containing brief notes
on events of the day, travel plans, golf dates, visitors, etc. 18 items
Fd 1 1885, 1892, 1897, 1902, 1904, 1905
Fd 2 1907
Fd 3 1913 1920
Box 26 Notebooks and account books 14 items
Box 27 Crown Maps, Series IV 10 Fds
Fd 1 Volume 1 (tissue originals) "The Platte River Routes" 45 plates.
Fd 2 Volume 1 (negatives)
Fd 3 Volume 1 (blueprint on white paper)
Fd 4 Volume 1, "Trial proof" (white print on blue paper)
Fd 5 Volume 1, Printed version (blueprint on white paper)
Fd 6 Volume 2 "North and South Platte Routes" 51 plates
Fd 7 Volume 3 "The Oregon Trail in Idaho and Oregon" 56 plates
Fd 8 Volume 4 "The California Trail, Ft. Hall to Placerville, with branch to Salt Lake City" 53 plates
Fd 9 Volume 5 "The Santa Fe Trail (Raton Mountain Route)" 53 plates
Fd 10 Volume 6 "The Santa Fe California Trail" 44 plates (incomplete)
Box 28 Photographic prints: mostly roads, trails, and forts primarily eastern states during the early 1900's. A few family pictures are included. 39 packages
Box 29, Far Eastern Collection
Fd 1 Manuscript versions of articles 12 items
Fd 2 Clippings 11 items
Fd 3 Publications 7 items
Fd 4 Publications 13 items
Fd 5 Clippings
Fd 6 Scrapbook of editorials in The Independent, 1898 1 item
Fd 7 Copies of The Independent, 1898
Fd 8 Photographs, mostly Seoul, Korea 42 items
Fd 9 Maps 6 items
Box 30, Scrapbooks, 1901 1908 and 1931, containing announcements, clippings, correspondence and other matter related to Hulbert's publications. Titles given are Hulbert's own.
"Historic Highways of America" 1902
The Forty Niners" 1931
"The Hulbert Far Eastern
Collection", 1897 1902
"Pilots of the Republic"
"Washington and the West"
"The Ohio River" 1906
"The Niagara River" 1908
"4 Hulbert Scrapbook Miscellany" ca. 1898
"5 Hulbert Scrapbook Miscellany" 1901
"Queen of Quelparte" 1902
Editorial scrapbook, [n.d.]
Box 31 Crown Maps, Series IV (uncut)
File cards; research notes
Original maps 28 items
Postcards Mostly color, many dated 1908 1910. Views of trails, rivers, forts in eastern United States. The majority are of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Ohio. 141 items
Box 32
Fd 1 Galley proof of Frontiers 1 item
Fd 2 Galley proof of The Forty Niners 1 item
Fd 3 Letters to C.R. Green, 1867 68 (typescripts)
Fd 4 Miscellaneous clippings 19 items
Publications by Archer Butler Hulbert 14 items
Bibliography of the writings of Archer Butler Hulbert. Vermont State Library, 1929. With Barbara Neilon’s 1980 update.
"Colorado The Clearinghouse of Provincialism." Mountain States Banker (September 1932):
27 29.
"The Era of Indian Demoralization." Reprinted from the Journal of Race Development 6
(January 1916).
"The Increasing Debt of History to Science." American Antiquarian Society (April 1919):29 42
Letters of an Overland Mall Agent in Utah. Worcester, Mass: American Antiquarian Society, 1929.
The Message of the Mound Builders to the Twentieth Century. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Michigan, 1913.
"Physician Heal Thyself." Alumni address, Marietta College, 1915.
"A Preliminary Syllabus for a Study of the Issues of the Present War." Part II: Why America Entered the War. Worcester, Mass: Clark University, [1919].
"The Provincial Basis of Patriotism." Report of an address reprinted from Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly (October 1927).
"The Relations of American Sectionalism to Transportation Routes." Clipping from Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Society, pp. 74 79.
A Syllabus on American History and the Natural Sciences. Colorado Springs: Colorado College Publications (January 1922).
"A System of Highways for the South." Reprinted from Manufacturers Record [n.d.]
"Washington's ‘Tour to the Ohio' and ‘Articles of the Mississippi Company'" Reprinted
from Ohio Archaeological & Historical Society Publications 18 (October 1908).
"Western Shipbuilding." Reprinted from the American History Review 21 (July 1916)
Periodicals
Forward 54 (September 1935).
The Frontier and Midland 14 (January 1934). Contains an article "The Trip to California," edited by Dorothy Hulbert.
Geographical Review, July, 1932.
Minnequa Historical Society Bulletin, October 1935. Contains a review of Southwest on the Turquoise Trail by Hulbert, pp. 7 12.
The Mountain States Banker 8 (September 1932) Contains the program for the Colorado Bankers
Association Convention for which Hulbert was one of the speakers.
National Waterways Feb. 1924, Jan., June, July, Sep., Octo, Nov., Dec. 1929
National Republic 21 (July 1933)
Ohio Archaeological & Historical Quarterly 41 (October 1932)
Ohio Archaeological & Historical Quarterly 42 (October 1933)
The Pikespeaker, Oct. 16, 1931 Contains a review of The Forty Niners, p. 8; cover portrait of Hulbert; frontispiece photograph of Hulbert, p.4
Union Pacific Magazine (Sept. 1925)
Box 33 OVERSIZE
Letters to Mr. David Green from Samuel Allis, 1836 (copies)
Journal and letters of John Dunbar, 1834 (copies)
Pike Maps 52 items
Diplomas, 1891, 1895, 1904, 1930
Archie Butler Hulbert Papers, Part 2, 1915-1974, Ms 0163
Gift of Dorothy Bryson, 1981. Finding Aid created 1982.
This addition to the Hulbert Collection consists of notes, manuscript fragments, some correspondence and miscellaneous material related to the publication of The Forty-Niners and the Stewart Commission Series. Some of the items relate to the Colorado College career of Mrs. Hulbert, including some lecture notes and correspondence.
Box 1
Fd 1 Letters to Archer Butler Hulbert, 1915-1933, including letters from libraries concerning purchase of "Overland to the Pacific"
Fd 2 Correspondence, notes, clippings, and miscellaneous typescripts re. Whitman letters.
Fd 3 Correspondence to Dorothy Wing concerning Forty- Niners 1934-1974
Fd 4 Accounts with publishers
Fd 5 Stewart Commission brochures
Fd 6 Manuscript fragments
Fd 7 Notes
Fd 8 Outlines
Fd 9 Songs and class notes
Fd 10 "Journal of a Voyage" (rough draft)
Fd 11 "Journal of Pike's Expedition" (rough draft)
Box 2
Fd 12 "The First Wagon on the Oregon Trail" (rough draft)
Fd 13 Notes for "Overland to the Pacific"
Fd 14 "A Young People's History of the United States" (fragments)
Fd 15 Fragments - U.S. History ?
Fd 16 " " "
Fd 17 " " "
Fd 18 " Forty-Niners ?
Fd 19 " " "
Fd 20 " " "
Box 3
Fd 21 Forty-Niners (rough draft)
Fd 22 " " "
Fd 23 "Ship-building on western waters" manuscript, "Was Zeb Pike a conspirator?"
Fd 24 "The Ships of the Desert Prepare to Sail - Chapter 2
Fd 25 Miscellaneous fragments
Fd 26 Student Papers
Fd 27 Crown maps - Vol. 1, 6 sheets
Box 4
Fd 28 "Westward the course of empire" Colorado College Faculty Lecture, by
Dorothy P. Hulbert, April 15, 1937
Fd 29 Notes by Mrs. A. B. Hulbert for "Overland to the Pacific" Includes 3 negatives and prints (2 - unused)
Fd 30 Lecture notes and class materials of Mrs. A. B. Hulbert
Fd 31 Latin literature
Fd 32 " "
Fd 33 " "
Fd 34 Miscellaneous notes, clippings, postcards, etc.
Fd 35 Miscellaneous negatives, mostly family and travel pictures
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