Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many individuals have contributed both directly and indirectly to the completion of this project. Randolph B. Campbell, my mentor and friend, deserves special thanks for listening, answering my questions, making suggestions , and offering encouragement from the conception of it to the conclusion . I also wish to thank Donald E. Chipman and James Ward Lee for their advice, encouragement, and support, and Walter L. Buenger for providing a critical reading of the original manuscript. I am deeply indebted to archivists and librarians at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, Houston Public Library Metropolitan Research Center, and the Texas State Archives for their assistance in locating and making available original sources, and to interlibrary loan staff at the University of North Texas and Austin College, who frequently went out of their way to obtain hard-to-find publications for me. The Center for American History at the University of Texas assisted my early research with the Miss Ima Hogg Research Travel Award, and the Texas State Historical Association gave financial support through the John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship. Finally, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my family for their patience and support, both moral and financial, throughout the long process of research and writing. Inventing Texas ...