Walter Prescott Webb

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Walter Prescott Webb (born April 3, 1888 in Panola County , Texas , † March 8, 1963 ) was an American historian.

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Webb was the son of the farmer Casner P. Webb (1862-1940) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Kyle (1855-1949) and was born on their parents' farm near Carthage , Texas. He attended Ranger High School in Ranger ( Eastland County ) and then studied at the University of Texas in Austin .

Webb graduated with a BA in 1915 and then worked in San Marcos as an accountant and in San Antonio as an assistant to an optician. In 1918 he returned to the University of Texas and got a position in the Faculty of History. He was later with his work on the two years of Texas Rangers doctorate .

1920/21 he spent doing research at the University of Chicago and then returned to Austin. There he began to write on his work "The Great Plains", which he was able to publish in 1931 with great success. Long member of the Texas Historical Association , Webb was appointed president in 1939 and this office he held until 1946.

In 1958 the American Historical Association elected Webb its president, and he held that office for a year.

Walter Prescott Webb died in a car accident near Austin, where he was buried in the Texas State Cemetery .

Honors

  • 1933 Loubat Prize for The Great Plains
  • The University of Texas initiated the Walter Prescott Webb Chair of History and Ideas in his honor

Fonts (selection)

  • More water for Texas . 1954.
  • The Great Plains. A study in institutions and environment . 1931.

literature

  • Michael L. Collins: Walter Prescott Webb . In: Patrick L. Cox (Ed.): Writing the story of Texas . University Press, Austin 2013, ISBN 0-292-74875-2 .
  • Joe B. Frantz: Remembering Walter Prescott Webb . In: The Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Vol. 92 (1988), No. 1, pp. 16-30, ISSN  0038-478X
  • Dorman H. Winfrey: Memories of J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb. A personal reflection on Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie . In: The Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Vol. 92 (1988), No. 1, pp. 31-143, ISSN  0038-478X

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personal data
SURNAME Webb, Walter Prescott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Panola County, Texas
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1963