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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022
One of the Reasons Given for the Neglect of the Spanish Era in Mississippi history has been the concentration of historians and writers on the Civil War which has overshadowed everything else. To that conclusion should be added a second consideration. The attention of a large number of graduate students has been centered on those four horsemen (one horsewoman) of Mississippi literature, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, James Street and Eudora Welty. A brief examination suggests that there have been more graduate studies written on these authors in the last thirty years than on any single topic of Mississippi history, the Civil War notwithstanding. The number of theses and dissertations on Faulkner alone would make an impressive bibliography. Without any visible decrease in the devotion shown Faulkner and his literary companions, the decade of the 1960s may be considered the renaissance for the study of Spanish Mississippi. Not that there have been any large number of people working in that period; but, because a few dedicated scholars of the younger generation, notably Jack D. L. Holmes, have worked energetically and productively on the years of the Spanish domination. The renewed interest in that fascinating age stimulated by Holmes and others is responsible for this survey which attempts to assess the state of historical and other scholarly studies for Spanish Mississippi. But what specific geographic area does this term embrace?
1. The Mississippi Provincial Archives, Spanish Dominion (9 volumes, 1759-1820), have been microfilmed and may be purchased from the Micro Photo Division, Bell and Howell, Drawer “E,” Wooster, Ohio 44691. In January 1970, the quoted price for the film was $72.80. Several university libraries have secured copies of the microfilm edition: the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of West Florida, the University of Florida, and Florida State University among others.
2. Copies of the film are located in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, and in the John C. Pace Library at the University of West Florida. Copies have been purchased by other libraries as well. The loss of several of the original volumes from the Courthouse in Natchez, has made the complete microfilm copy indispensible. Interested parties should contact the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, P. O. Box 571, Jackson, Mississippi 39205, in regard to purchasing the microfilm.
3. Available at last report for $22.50 from the Genealogical Book Company, 521-23 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
4. The two-volume catalog may be purchased from the Louisiana Documents Project, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.
5. These volumes have been microfilmed and may be ordered from the Louisiana State Archives and Records Commission, P. O. Box 44422, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804.
6. Although Bolton had taken some courses with Turner while at Wisconsin, one of Bolton's students insists that Turner had little influence on him. Professor Alfred Barnaby Thomas has stated that Bolton often told his students that it was his exposure to the Spanish documents at the University of Texas at the beginning of his teaching career that turned his attention in that direction. The conceptual differences between Turner and Bolton are briefly but well described by Ray Allen Billington in the foreword to John Francis Bannon's book, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1970.
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