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But they have left the...)
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But they have left their trails behind them - and nothing else so interesting, so pregnant with varied memories, so rich in historical suggestion.
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Boone's Wilderness Road With Maps and Illustrations
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Waterways Of Westward Expansion: The Ohio River And Its Tributaries
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The Old National Road: A Chapter of American Expansion (Classic Reprint)
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OR material used in this volume the F author is largely in the debt of the librarians of the State Libraries of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. From the Honorable C. B. Galbreath, of the Ohio State Library, he has received much assistance covering an extended period. To the late Thomas B. Searight's valuable collection of biograph ical and colloquial sketches, T lze Old Pike, the author wishes to express his great indebtedness. AS Mr. Searight gave Special attention to the road in Pennsylvania, the present monograph deals at large with the story of the road west of the Ohio River, especially in the state of Ohio.
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Hulbert was born in Bennington, Vermont on January 26, 1873. He was third son and fifth of the six children of the Rev. Calvin Butler and Mary Elizabeth (Woodward) Hulbert. His father, a Congregational minister who was later president of Middlebury College, was a descendant of Thomas Hurlbut, or Hurlburt, who, as a refugee from the tyrannies of Charles I, had helped found Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1635. Through his mother, daughter of Henry Woodward, one of the first missionaries sent to India by the American Board, he traced his ancestry to Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.
Education
Hulbert graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, in 1895.
Career
After graduation from Marietta College, Hulbert was vice-principal of Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. He spent the year 1897-98 in newspaper work in Korea, where an elder brother, Homer, was headmaster of the Imperial Normal School at Seoul. On his return to America, after this year of broadening experience, he continued writing, turning to trails and highways for themes. His interest in trails went back to college days, when, on fishing trips in the Alleghanies, he had come upon Indian trails, still dimly visible to him who had the eyes to see them. Now, a writer by profession, he turned more seriously to the task of tracing them and within a few years produced the sixteen volumes of the Historic Highways of America series (1902 - 05). Although popular in nature and restricted as to area (east of the Mississippi), these volumes associated permanently Hulbert's name with historical geography. He was never an "arm-chair historian, " and much of the charm of his writing came from careful field-work; mile after mile he followed his trails, original journals and detailed topographical maps in hand.
From 1904 to 1918 he was professor of American history at Marietta College. Here he had access to and published the records of the Ohio Company in three volumes which combined high standards of editorial scholarship with clear and vigorous presentation of ideas – Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company (2 vols. , 1917) and Ohio in the Time of the Confederation (1918). Other academic connections included lectureships at the University of Chicago in 1904 and 1923, at Clark University in 1918-19, and the post of archivist for the Harvard Commission on Western History, 1912-16. In 1920 he went to Colorado College and remained there, with a part-time affiliation also with Pomona College, until his death.
Hulbert was an indefatigable worker and a prolific writer. When he had completed twenty-five years of academic service in 1929, the Vermont State Library issued a Bibliography of the Writings of Archer Butler Hulbert, listing 102 titles, and many of his most important books came later. One group, in which he continued his interest in trails and highways, included the Crown Collection of American Maps; Paths of Inland Commerce (1920), in the Chronicles of America series; Frontiers: The Genius of American Nationality (1929); Soil: Its Influence on the History of the United States (1930); and the Forty-niners (1931), a book in which the experiences of the tens of thousands who went overland to California in the gold rush were put together in one narrative with such artistry as to win a prize of $5, 000 from the Atlantic Monthly. Another group of books, in which he pursued an interest in Washington, included Colonel Washington (1902); Washington and the West (1905); and Washington's Tour of the Ohio (1909). After his removal to Colorado Springs and the organization of the Stewart Commission on Western History, through the generosity of Philip B. Stewart of that city, Hulbert initiated an ambitious project for publishing a documentary and narrative history of the Far West under the general title of Overland to the Pacific. Three volumes had been issued by 1933: Zebulon Pike's Arkansaw Journal (1932), with Stephen H. Hart as coeditor; Southwest on the Turquoise Trail (1933); and Where Rolls the Oregon (1933). After Hulbert's untimely death the series was brought to completion, although on a less elaborate scale than he had planned, under the competent editorship of his wife, Dorothy Printup Hulbert. The titles of the later volumes are: The Call of the Columbia (1934); The Oregon Crusade (1935); and Marcus Whitman: Crusader (3 vols. , 1936 - 41).
He died at his home in Colorado Springs.
Achievements
He is remembered as a historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history. Continually stressing the relations between history and such sciences as geology, geography, climatology, hydrography, and even botany and ornithology, he was recognized as being "without challenge, the leader in the field of American historical topography. "
In recognition of his work he was made a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Personality
Short and stocky, vigorous and dynamic, Hulbert, in the pungent words of a contemporary, had "an aromatic personality. " Naturally, he was a forceful teacher and lecturer.
Connections
He was twice married: first, September 10, 1901, to Mary Elizabeth Stacy, who died in 1920; second, June 16, 1923, to Dorothy Printup; by each wife he had two daughters.
