Where the West begins
Subtitle: debating Texas identity
By: Glen Sample Ely ; foreword by Alwyn Barr
Series: Plains histories
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780896727243
Subjects: Social life and customs; Civilization; Group identity; Relations
Description: "Examines the historical debate surrounding Texas's identity: investigates whether Texas, with its heritage of slavery, segregation, and cotton production, is 'Southern' or, with its cowboys, cattle drives, mountains, and desert, is 'Western'"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plainsword; title: Where the West begins; title: Gone from Texas and trading with the enemy : new perspectives on Civil War West Texas; title: Race relations as a barometer of Western identity; title: The "Garden of Eden" and the "Cowman's Paradise" : nineteenth-century myths confront twenty-first century environmental realities in West Texas; title: Texas identity west of the 100th meridian.