Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-25
MEXICAN ARCHIVES
 TO BE SEARCHED
 FOR HISTORY LORE
Texas University Professor Will Study Old
 Records

NY Austin, Texas, July 24.-Dr. Chas w. Hackett, adjunct professor ot Latin-American history :n the Uni versitv of Tevas. has gone to the City gf Mexico where he will do inn portAnt research work in the archives o1the old cathedral. in addition to 6hat he expects to purchase rare md valuable booLs relating to the history of the early Spanish con qucrors and also supervise the copy. ing of many old manuscripts for the University library.
 This work is regarded as being of prime historical value to the South west, but to Texas in particular. This field of history has been but recently explored and historical data of major importance is expected from the work which Dr. Hackett has undertaken for the University of Texas.
 Dr. Herbert F. Bolton, formerly professor of history in the Univer- sity, now at the University of Cali fornia, is one of the pioneers in this Z field of Latin-American history. Sew cral years ago. while teaching in the University of Texas, Dr. Bolton made trip to the City of Mexico to make n survey of the old Spanish and Mexican archives. Subsequently he published n guide to these archives. The blazing of the trial by Dr. Bol- ton has made it possible for subse- oo rnboc fo In Y,oodo
 Records of Mexico since 1519.
 These records cover the history of Mexico and the Spanish Southwest from the conquest by Cortez in 1519 to recent times. There are collec- tions of official reports from all the provinces which one time belonged to Spain and which now belong to the Southwest. Many of these val uable historical records have lain for centuries in their repository. Some of them are very rare and are of much interest to the people of the United States. The last decade of revolution in Mexico with all its at- tendant desolation and devastation has left these archives intact.
 After the conquest of Mexico by Cortez in 1519, Spain began the es- tablishment of permanent provinces there. Gradually these web-like lines of civilization were pushed nolthward. Always in the wake of the Spanish conquerors came the missionaries who established mis- sions and schools. With the pas sionate devotion to their religion, characteristic of the early conquis- tadores, missionaries and settlers in the new world they began the civili- zation of the native red men. Long before Jamestown was thought of, and century before the Pilgrim sS Fathers landed in New England, Spain had begun to establish prov inces in Mexico, and later extended her power into what is Western United States.
 Planned Outposts in Texas.
 By 1875, the Spaniards had con solidated their gains to the north and had planned to establish out posts in Texas. With the coming of < La Salle to Texas, they immediately began preparations for the occupa- ton of this territory to forestall the French.
 The advanced civilization of the Mexican neighbor that was develop s ed in these early times is not gener- ally appreciated, historians claim Eighty years before the beginning of Harvard University in New Eng land in 1636, there was Univer. sity in Mexico granting degrees \ Ecventy-five years before the first s printing press was set up in the United States, there were printing presses in Mexico. There are some very early books published in Mex. ico and some rare imprints made s that are of much value to the his, torical world. It is in hopes of ob, taining some of these that the pres.