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XLIII - Number 4 Bio: David J.
Weber was the Robert and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern
Methodist University and the director of the William P. Clements
Center for Southwest Studies. He was grateful to Mercedes de Vega
Armijo of the Acervo Histórico Diplomático, Secretaría
de Relaciones Exteriores in Mexico City, for facilitating his research
in that archive. Abstract: Early
twentieth-century dude ranches provided upper-class eastern men
and women beset by social change with the living memorialization
of an imagined past—a frontier fantasy of patriarchal family
life. This strategically anachronistic landscape emboldened dudes
to transgress the restraints of gender and class, most noticeably
through the dudine-wrangler romance. Abstract: Through
kinship claims, Heiltsuks and other coastal natives established
a system of marine space that facilitated effective fisheries management.
After overriding Aboriginal claims on the basis of open access,
the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans conceded that efficacious
regulation required exclusive harvest zones. Nonetheless, courts
continued to disregard Heiltsuk spatial claims when assessing fishing
rights. Abstract: Since
its establishment in the fall of 1996, the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas, has served as a key incubator of first-rate scholarship on
Texas and the transnational U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Although its
visionary founding director, David J. Weber, died in August 2010
(his final article appears in this issue of Western Historical Quarterly),
the core mission of the center remains the same. As Weber’s
successor, I describe the annual operations of the Clements Center
while touching on some of my own ideas about the future of this
vital academic institute. Book Reviews:
_________________ Articles: Albert L. Hurtado, "Bolton and Turner: The Borderlands and American Exceptionalism" Abstract: Frederick
Jackson Turner and Herbert Eugene Bolton are regarded as the founders
of the field of western history. Bolton was a student of Turner’s,
and they corresponded until Turner died. While Bolton maintained
that he was Turner’s disciple, his work posed a challenge
to Turner’s ideas about the frontier. Yet Turner did not address
or incorporate Bolton’s work in his own, and Bolton did not
seem to recognize that he had challenged Turner. This essay explores
their complex relationship. Abstract: We commonly
acknowledge that the extension of slavery into the West was a primary
cause of the sectional crisis. Yet we tend to treat these two mid-nineteenth-century
narratives as geographically distinct: a battle over slavery engulfs
the East while mineral rushes transform the West. Here the creation
of the Colorado Territory is framed within both these developments
as well as in the shifting conception of American geography in the
1850s. Abstract: This article reexamines the anti-Chinese movement in Mexico through a discussion of a failed anti-Chinese campaign in Baja California. It argues that Chinese migrants organized in the face of Sinophobic aggression and that the national and international implications of anti-Chinese violence forced diplomats and government officials to grapple with Chinese demands for equal treatment in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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