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In Where the West Begins, Glen Sample Ely attempts to shed light on an old debate among historians: Is Texas southern (slavery and cotton), western (cowboys and aridity), or unique (the Texas Revolution and Republic)? Ely draws evidence from primary and secondary sources, picks apart the historiography of historians, and determines that West Texas is decidedly western, with a history that distinguishes it from East Texas and the latter’s Old South influences. This award-winning book, published by Texas Tech University Press in 2011 as part of its Plains Histories series, investigates and topples many time-worn Texas history myths, while placing the history of Texas west of the 100th meridian firmly alongside those of the Old and New West.

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.
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