Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity

by Glen Sample Ely

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727246
• ISBN13: 9780896727243
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"