Glen Sample Ely
Author of The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861
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Ely concludes Where the West Beginss by returning to his original question: “Is Texas southern, western, or unique?” He concludes: “The answer is all three” (p. 128). Ely refers to the insights of scholars like John Stricklin Spratt, Randolph Campbell, Richard Flores, and James Crisp to explain that Texans and their mythmakers have clung to the cowboy image of West Texas and the exceptionalism of the Texas Revolution to escape the embarrassing burden of southern history (slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, etc.) This confusing jumble of identities has meant that historians of the South and West often ignore Texas. Ely complains that Texas historians who focus on the southern heritage in East Texas have long minimalized West Texas just as the “New Western History” ignores it. Texas west of the 100th meridian, Ely concludes, is a distinct region of the state that is fully western, and uniquely deserving of scholarly study.… (more)