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Thomas Maitland Marshall
1876–1936
A historian of the American Southwest and early U.S. expansion, he wrote closely researched studies on Texas diplomacy, frontier boundaries, and the Louisiana Purchase. His work helped document how borders and politics shaped the nineteenth-century West.
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The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783
by Herbert Eugene Bolton, Thomas Maitland Marshall
About the author
Born in 1876, Thomas Maitland Marshall was an American historian whose work centered on the history of the Southwest and the early United States. Archival records describe him as a professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis, and library catalogs link him to a steady body of scholarship published in the early twentieth century.
His best-known books include The Southwestern Boundary of Texas, 1821-1840, Diplomatic Relations of Texas and the United States, 1839-1843, and A History of the Western Boundary of the Louisiana Purchase, 1819-1841. These studies show a clear interest in borders, diplomacy, and the political history of the expanding nation, especially where U.S., Mexican, and Texan histories meet.
Marshall died in 1936. Although he is not widely known today outside specialist circles, his books remain useful for readers interested in western history, Texas, and the shaping of North American frontiers.