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Walter Prescott Webb

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Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888 in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963 near Austin, Texas) was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. [1]

45 relations: A. G. Hopkins, American Historical Association, Austin, Texas, Bill McDonald (Texas Ranger), Bookkeeping, Cadillac Desert, Carthage, Texas, Christopher Columbus, Confederate States Army, Eastland County, Texas, Ernest Wallace, Eugene C. Barker, Ford Foundation, Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier Thesis, Great Plains, Handbook of Texas, Harper's Magazine, Historian, Irrigation, J. Frank Dobie, John Connally, Loubat Prize, Master of Arts, Optometry, Panola County, Texas, Ranger High School, Ranger, Texas, Robert W. Mondy, Roy Bedichek, San Antonio, San Marcos, Texas, Social Science Research Council, Steve Moore (playwright), Texas literature, Texas Ranger Division, Texas State Cemetery, Texas State Historical Association, United States Bureau of Reclamation, University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin, Western United States, William J. Oliphant, World War I, World Wide Web.

A. G. Hopkins

Antony "Tony" Gerald Hopkins, FBA (born 21 February 1938) is a British historian specialising in the economic history of Africa, European colonialism, and globalisation.

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American Historical Association

The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bill McDonald (Texas Ranger)

William Jesse McDonald, known as Captain Bill McDonald (September 28, 1852– January 15, 1918), was a Texas Ranger who served briefly as a bodyguard for both U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, opponents, along with incumbent President William Howard Taft, in the bitter 1912 United States presidential election.

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Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the recording of financial transactions, and is part of the process of accounting in business.

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Cadillac Desert

Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner, is a 1986 book published by Viking about land development and water policy in the western United States.

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Carthage, Texas

Carthage is a city in Panola County, Texas, United States.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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Eastland County, Texas

Eastland County is a county located in West Central Texas.

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Ernest Wallace

Ernest Wallace (June 11, 1906 – November 17, 1985) was a historian of Texas, the American West and the southern Great Plains, who was affiliated with Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

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Eugene C. Barker

Eugene Campbell Barker, Sr. (November 10, 1874 – October 22, 1956), was a distinguished professor of Texas history at the University of Texas in the capital city of at Austin, the first living person to have had a UT campus building, the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, named in his honor.

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Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a New York-headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.

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Frederick Jackson Turner

Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian in the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then at Harvard.

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Frontier Thesis

The Frontier Thesis or Turner Thesis, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Handbook of Texas

The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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J. Frank Dobie

James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 – September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range.

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John Connally

John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917June 15, 1993) was an American politician.

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Loubat Prize

The Loubat Prize was a pair of prizes awarded by Columbia University every five years between 1898 and 1958 for the best social science works in the English language about North America.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Optometry

Optometry is a health care profession which involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities as well as the medical diagnosis and management of eye disease.

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Panola County, Texas

Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Ranger High School

Ranger High School is a public high school located in Ranger, Texas (USA) and classified as a 1A school by the UIL.

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Ranger, Texas

Ranger is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States.

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Robert W. Mondy

Robert William Mondy (September 4, 1908 – August 18, 1997) was an historian of the frontier experience in the American West and South, who spent thirty-nine years, from 1935–1974, on the faculty of Louisiana Tech UniversityMondy obituary, Ruston Daily Leader, Ruston, Louisiana, August 19, 1997 in his native Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana.

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Roy Bedichek

Roy Bedichek (June 27, 1878 – May 21, 1959) was a Texan writer, naturalist and educator.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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San Marcos, Texas

San Marcos is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan area.

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Social Science Research Council

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is a U.S.-based independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines.

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Steve Moore (playwright)

Steve Moore is an American playwright born in Chicago, Illinois.

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Texas literature

Texas literature is literature about the history and culture of Texas.

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Texas Ranger Division

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, based in the capital city of Austin.

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Texas State Cemetery

The Texas State Cemetery (TSC) is a cemetery located on about just east of downtown Austin, the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Texas State Historical Association

The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to documenting the history of Texas.

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United States Bureau of Reclamation

The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service (not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement), is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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William J. Oliphant

William J. Oliphant (1845–1930) was an American Confederate States Army veteran and photographer from Austin, Texas.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Prescott_Webb

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