Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity

Contents

1 Illustrations xi Maps xi Acknowledgments xiii Plainsword xv 1 Where the West Begins 3 2 Gone From Texas and Trading with the Enemy New Perspectives on Civil War West Texas 35 3 Race Relations as a Barometer of Western Identity 75 4 The “Garden of Eden” and the “Cowman’s Paradise” Nineteenth-Century Myths Confront Twenty-First-Century Environmental Realities in West Texas 99 5 Texas Identity West of the 100th Meridian 121 Notes 133 Bibliography 171 Index 195 Contents ...