November 18, 1963
Fairmont Hotel
San Francisco, California

This third Foundation Lecture was presented at the national conference of the Public Relations Society of America.

Dr. Billington was born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1903. Reared in Detroit, he was educated at the University of Wisconsin (Ph.B., 1926), the University of Michigan (M.A., 1927) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1933).

He taught at Clark University and Smith College before going to Northwestern University where he held the William Smith Mason chair of History from 1944-1963. In 1963, he became Senior Research Associate at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Dr. Billington is the author of numerous books and articles on western history, including Western Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (2nd edition, 1960); The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860 (1956); and The Westward Movement in the United States (1959).