Arthur Clinton Boggess

Arthur Clinton Boggess was an American historian and author remembered for scholarly writing on the early United States. The work most clearly associated with him in current library and bookselling records is The Settlement of Illinois, 1778–1830, a study of frontier expansion and state formation in the Old Northwest.

Reliable biographical details about his life are limited in the sources readily available online, but memorial records identify him as living from 1874 to 1955. Because the surviving public information is fairly sparse, it is safest to describe him as a historian whose reputation rests mainly on his published research rather than on a widely documented public career.

For audiobook listeners, his appeal is in the subject matter: careful, older-style historical writing that captures how earlier generations interpreted American growth, migration, and institutions. Readers interested in the history of Illinois or in classic academic history may find his work especially worthwhile.