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Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity

Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity

Ely, Glen Sample
Barr, Alwyn

Paperback

Series: Plains Histories

Regional: Southwest

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1682830128
ISBN13: 9781682830123
Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr
Published: Jun 15 2011
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state's roots in slavery, segregation, and cotton make it southern. Another argues that its Native and ranching history make it western. Outside Texas, southern and western historians who don't know what to make of the state ignore it altogether. In his innovative settling of the question, Glen Sample Ely examines the state's historical DNA, making sense of Lone Star identity west of the hundredth meridian and defining Texas's place in the American West.Focusing on the motives that shape how Texans appropriate their past--from cashing in on tourism to avoiding historical realities--Ely reveals the inner workings of a multiplicity of Texas identities.

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