Ernest Wallace
| Ernest Wallace | |
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| Born |
June 11, 1906 Daingerfield, Morris County Texas, United States |
| Died | November 17, 1985 (aged 79) Lubbock, Lubbock County Texas |
| Alma mater |
East Texas State University |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Years active | 1942-1979 |
| Spouse(s) | Ellen Kegans Wallace (married 1926-his death) |
| Children | One daughter |
| Parent(s) | Thomas and Lula Barber Wallace |
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For nearly a decade after his retirement from the history faculty of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Wallace continued to research the southern Great Plains and in 1979 published The Howling of the Coyotes: Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas.
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East Texas State University
Texas Tech University
Ernest Wallace (June 11, 1906 – November 17, 1985) was an historian of Texas, the American West and the southern Great Plains, who was affiliated with Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Wallace wrote eleven major books on Texas history. With E. Adamson Hoebel, he authored in 1952 The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains, which in its fifteenth edition in 2014, remains a pre-eminent study of the Comanche. His minor in anthropology was helpful in writing this book. With David M. Vigness, he co-edited in 1963 Documents of Texas History. With Adrian N. Anderson and Rupert N. Richardson of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, he co-authored Richardson's Texas: The Lone Star State (1970 and 1981). In 1964, Wallace published Ranald S. McKenzie of the Texas Frontier, a study of the exploits of Ranald S. Mackenzie in the Texas Panhandle, and a study of the closing of the Texas frontier in 1965 entitled Texas in Turmoil. His last book, The Howling of the Coyotes Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas in 1979 is a study the attempt to divide Texas during Reconstruction.
His 1943 doctoral dissertation. Charles De Morse, Editor and Statesman, was updated in 1979. Wallace also edited the acclaimed Texas' Last Frontier: and the Trans-Pecos, written by Clayton W. Williams, Sr., father of the 1990 Republican gubernatorial nominee, Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr., who narrowly lost the race to the Democrat Ann Willis Richards. A paperback version was released in December 1982.
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