Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888, in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963, near Austin, Texas) [3] was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas.

Oct 18, 2016 · Webb, Walter Prescott (1888–1963). Walter Prescott Webb, historian and author, was born on a farm in Panola County, Texas, on April 3, 1888, the son of Casner P. and Mary Elizabeth (Kyle) Webb. His father was a schoolteacher and part time farmer.

WEBB, WALTER PRESCOTT (1888-1963). Walter Prescott Webb, historian and author, was born on a farm in Panola County, Texas, on April 3, 1888, the son of Casner P. and Mary Elizabeth (Kyle) Webb. His father was a schoolteacher and part time farmer. The Webb family had moved from Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Caledonia in Rusk County, Texas, then to ...

Walter Prescott Webb’s previously unpublished memoir recounts the experiences that shaped his most famous—and controversial—works.

A child of the Great Plains, Walter Prescott Webb was one of the preeminent historians of the region and of the American western frontier. He was born on April 3, 1888, in Panola County, East Texas, on the southern fringe of the Great Plains and grew to manhood in the farmland of the Stephens-Eastland Counties area of West Texas.

Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888–March 8, 1963) was professor of history at the University of Texas. Webb, president of the American Historical Association for 1957–58, was killed in a one-car accident near his home town of Austin, Texas, the night of March 8.

Mar 20, 2025 · Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888, in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963, near Austin, Texas) was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical

April 3, 1888–March 8, 1963. Walter Prescott Webb remains one of Texas's most significant and influential scholars. Born in 1888, Webb grew up in Stephens County. In 1904, an Atlanta literary magazine published a letter written by a young Webb asking how he could become a writer.

Walter Prescott Webb was professor of history at the University of Texas. Notes. Apparently Turner had a little trouble in making his Wisconsin subject palatable to the Johns Hopkins professors.

Dr. Walter Prescott Webb was a'native of East Texas who grew up in West Texas to become the foremost interpreter of the State of Texas to the nation and to the world. Through his writings he made the world conscious of the Texan's fight to triumph over water scarcity, of the meaning of courage as exemplified by