Jeff Roche
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So there at jeffroche.net, you have, there's 1,800, 1,900 total sources of
Again, organized by chapter there.
So you have both the personal sort of bespoke type of short bibliography, but also the longer lists of the things that I consulted.
Yeah, that'd be, I would hope so.
Yeah.
So I identify myself as a Western historian.
That was one of my fields in graduate school.
I approached the study of this part of Texas as a Western historian would approach this part of Texas.
And, you know, as you mentioned, Texas occupies this very strange place in historiography and the history, really, of both of these regions, you know, South and West.
And Texas historians
I don't know if bicker is the right verb, but about whether or not Texas is the South or whether or not Texas is the West.
And clearly, you know, the answer is both.
Texas is a politically created entity.
If you remove the borders of that shape...
And just look at regions, you know, once you, you know, to use the classic definition of the West, once you cross the hundredth meridian in Texas, you are no longer in the same environmental or ecological space as you are in, say, the Great Piney Woods.
So, yeah.
So therefore, you know, I looked at that part of Texas, you know, as a Western space with one absolutely critical difference between the Western half of Texas and the rest of the West.
And that is the federal government had a very limited presence in West Texas.
Texas joins the union in 1845.
with the caveat that they will retain control of their public lands.
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