The Mission as a Frontier Institution: Sixty Years of Interest and Research

Abstract

T he evening of March 23, 1917, in Wheeler Auditorium, University of California at Berkeley, Herbert Eugene Bolton delivered the fifth in the recently established annual series of faculty research lectures. His piece was titled The Mission as a Frontier Institution in the Spanish American Colonies. Into it Bolton distilled fifteen years of acquaintance with the source materials of the Spanish colonial enterprise in the Americas. Ever since he had made the activities of the men of