Steve Hausman
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Yeah.
In the book, you describe this is like a perfect, you know, I try to teach my students asking good historical questions, asking why about things.
And this is such a good example of that.
In the book, you describe looking at a political map, like a county by county election map of this part of Texas.
And, you know, even just the pink red stands out amidst the sea of red and then asking, why is this the case?
That's that's a great example of what the historians supposed to be doing.
That was the question.
Yeah, right, right.
But let's say, imagine that we're driving across this part of Texas.
What would you see?
Who might you meet?
And what would be the history that you'd be driving through and across and over in this region?
Give us kind of a brief overview and a sense of place of where we're talking about here.
It sounds like a very stark place and, yeah, a difficult place to make a life.
And yet, as we'll be talking about, people have done so.
And the story, I mean, obviously there's a deeper history here, but the story in the book really kind of gets going in the late 19th century with the character that some people that are familiar with kind of Western history might be familiar with, Charles Goodnight and the rise of Texas cattle ranching.
Tell us a little bit about Goodnight and who he was and this moment in Texas history and how it kind of gets the ball rolling on the story of conservatism in this part of the country.
So what brings other people to this place then?
I mean, you've been describing this landscape as so stark and so unforgiving.
And yet this part of Texas begins, you know, in the late 19th and early 20th century to market itself as an agricultural wonderland.
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