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{{Infobox person
| name=Ernest Wallace
(Historian of Texas, the American West, and the Great Plains)
| birth_date=June 11, 1906
| birth_place =Daingerfield, Morris County<br> [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=November 17, 1985 (aged 79)
|death_place=[[Lubbock]], Texas
| spouse=Ellen Kegans Wallace (married 1926-his death)<br>
One daughter<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Thomas and Lula Barber Wallace
|alma_mater=East Texas State University<br>
[[Texas Tech University]]<br>
[[University of Texas at Austin]]
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|footnotes='''Note''':<br>
For nearly a decade after his retirement from the [[history]] faculty of [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]], Wallace continued to research the southern [[Great Plains]] and in 1979 published ''The Howling of the Coyotes: Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas.''
}}
'''Ernest Wallace''' (June 11, 1906 – November 17, 1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=74911899&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EOs595&_phstart=successSource|title=Ernest Wallace|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=October 2, 2019}}</ref> was a [[historian]] of [[Texas]], the [[American West]] and the southern [[Great Plains]], who was long affiliated with [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]].
==Historical works==
Wallace wrote eleven major books on Texas history. With E. Adamson Hoebel, he authored in 1952 ''The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains, which in 2014 was in its fifteenth edition and remains a pre-eminent study of the [[Comanche]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=u21D6CakZHIC&dq=Ernest+Wallace&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=oh1aF-ISCD&sig=EwqHxGjvAAPAejdtuAcmso1a-BU&hl=en&ei=C8qqSq7qHsyOtgfgw_2kCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false|title=''The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains''|publisher=books.google.com|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref> His minor in [[anthropology]] was helpful in writing this book.
With David M. Vigness, he co-edited in 1963 ''Documents of Texas History.''
With Adrian N. Anderson and Rupert N. Richardson of Hardin-Simmons University in [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]], Texas, he co-authored Richardson's ''Texas: The Lone Star State'' (1970 and 1981).
In 1964, Wallace published ''Ranald S. McKenzie of the Texas Frontier'' a study of the exploits of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie (1840-1889) in the Texas Panhandle. IN He also published a study of the closing of the Texas frontier in 1965 entitled ''Texas in Turmoil''. His last book, ''The Howling of the Coyotes Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas'' in 1979 is a study of the attempt to divide Texas during [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=itwentybias>David Murrah, "Replacing the I-35 Bias with an I-20 Bias: The Landmark Work of Richardson, Holden, and Wallace," ''West Texas Historical Review,'' Vol. 90 (2014), pp. 54-55.</ref>
His 1943 doctoral [[dissertation]]. ''Charles De Morse, Editor and Statesman,'' was updated in 1979.<ref name=ttech>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00084/tsw-00084.html|title=Ernest Wallace: An Inventory of His Papers ... at the Southwest Collections Library|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref> Wallace also edited the acclaimed ''Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, written by Clayton Wheat Williams, Sr., father of the 1990 [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee]], Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr., who narrowly lost the race to the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[liberal]], [[Ann Richards]]. A paperback version was released in December 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flipkart.com/texas-last-frontier-clayton-williams/158544071x-zsx3fddwid|title=''Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos''|publisher=flipkart.com|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref>
==Early years and education==
Wallace was born to Thomas Wallace and the former Lula Barber in Daingerfield in Morris County in east Texas. His early education was procured in [[rural]] schools in Morris and neighboring Cass County. He received his [[Bachelor of Science]] degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, then known as East Texas Teacher's College. Wallace began his teaching career in the 1925-1926 academic year at the White Lick community east of Sweetwater in Nolan County in West Texas; there he wed his wife, the former Ellen Kegans (January 16, 1908 – October 12, 1987), a college classmate fromMerkel in Taylor County near Abilene, and the couple had a daughter.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwaaj|author=H. Allen Anderson|title=Ernest Wallace|publisher=''Handbook of Texas: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref>
The next year, he returned to East Texas to teach at Linden in Cass County, where he was also a |coach. For some eight years, he was until 1935 the superintendent of the public school in the Cornett community in Cass County. From 1935 to 1936, he taught in Tulia in Swisher County south of [[Amarillo]].<ref name=itwentybias/><ref name=handbook/>
==University career==
Wallace received his [[Master of Arts]] degree at then Texas Technological College in 1935, after two years of study, and began as a Texas Tech instructor of history in 1936. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1941, associate professor in 1943, and full professor in 1946. In 1942, he completed his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin]], under the supervision of Professor Walter Prescott Webb, author of the definitive work, ''The Great Plains.'' From 1945 to 1949, he directed the Texas Tech summer school program and was the assistant dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1945 to 1955. He was awarded fellowships in 1938 and 1952, respectively, by the UT Regents and the [[Ford Foundation]]. He served for a time as a consultant to the [[United States Department of Justice]] regarding suits filed against the national government by the [[Kiowa]], Kiowa-Apache, and Comanche tribes.<ref name=handbook/>
From 1975 to 1979, he was consultant for ''The Great Chiefs'' and ''The Texans'' for ''[[Time-Life Books]].'' In 1967, he was among the first four professors named a Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, the highest recognition that the university bestows. He held the designation until his retirement in 1976, the official end of his 40-year career. Horn was the founding president of Texas Tech, having served from 1923 to 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swco.ttu.edu/University_Archive/uacollections11.html|title=List of Horn Professors at Texas Tech University|publisher=swco.ttu.edu|accessdate=September 13, 2009}}The next historian at Texas Tech so honored was Allan J. Kuethe] selected in 1990.</ref> In 1954, Wallace was named a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and served as president of the association from 1977 to 1978. In 1968, the West Texas [[Chamber of Commerce]] presented Wallace with the "Cultural Achievement Award for Significant Contributions to Historical Literature." In 1969, he received the Minnie Stevens Piper Award. In 1971, the West Texas Museum Association presented Wallace with its Action Award for his "outstanding contributions to the enrichment and culture" of the South Plains.<ref name=handbook/>
Among Wallace's colleagues at Texas Tech were professors emeriti [[Paul H. Carlson]] and Alwyn Barr,, other authors on Texas topics.
In 1975, Wallace received the Outstanding Teacher Award, which involved the establishment of the Ernest Wallace Scholarship in History, from the Texas Tech chapter of Phi Alpha Theta honor society. Though he suffered a heart attack in 1972, Wallace recovered to continue his academic duties and was still active professionally long after his retirement,<ref name=handbook/> having maintained an office in Holden Hall, the home of the Tech history department.
In addition to the Texas State and West Texas historical associations, Wallace was active in the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the [[Southern Historical Association]], the Western Historical Association, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, and the Texas Association of Classroom Teachers.<ref name=handbook/> The West Texas Historical Association offers the Ernest Wallace Grant for graduate student research at Texas Tech University.
He was a member of St. Paul's [[Episcopal]] Church, the Rotary International, and the Masonic lodge. Wallace died of a second heart attack at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. He and Mrs. Wallace are interred in Lubbock at Resthaven Memorial Park.<ref>''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' November 18, 1985.</ref> His scholarly papers are housed in the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech.<ref name=ttech/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Ernest}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
| name=Ernest Wallace
(Historian of Texas, the American West, and the Great Plains)
| birth_date=June 11, 1906
| birth_place =Daingerfield, Morris County<br> [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=November 17, 1985 (aged 79)
|death_place=[[Lubbock]], Texas
| spouse=Ellen Kegans Wallace (married 1926-his death)<br>
One daughter<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Thomas and Lula Barber Wallace
|alma_mater=East Texas State University<br>
[[Texas Tech University]]<br>
[[University of Texas at Austin]]
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|footnotes='''Note''':<br>
For nearly a decade after his retirement from the [[history]] faculty of [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock]], Wallace continued to research the southern [[Great Plains]] and in 1979 published ''The Howling of the Coyotes: Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas.''
}}
'''Ernest Wallace''' (June 11, 1906 – November 17, 1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&h=74911899&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=EOs595&_phstart=successSource|title=Ernest Wallace|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=October 2, 2019}}</ref> was a [[historian]] of [[Texas]], the [[American West]] and the southern [[Great Plains]], who was long affiliated with [[Texas Tech University]] in [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]].
==Historical works==
Wallace wrote eleven major books on Texas history. With E. Adamson Hoebel, he authored in 1952 ''The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains, which in 2014 was in its fifteenth edition and remains a pre-eminent study of the [[Comanche]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=u21D6CakZHIC&dq=Ernest+Wallace&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=oh1aF-ISCD&sig=EwqHxGjvAAPAejdtuAcmso1a-BU&hl=en&ei=C8qqSq7qHsyOtgfgw_2kCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false|title=''The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains''|publisher=books.google.com|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref> His minor in [[anthropology]] was helpful in writing this book.
With David M. Vigness, he co-edited in 1963 ''Documents of Texas History.''
With Adrian N. Anderson and Rupert N. Richardson of Hardin-Simmons University in [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]], Texas, he co-authored Richardson's ''Texas: The Lone Star State'' (1970 and 1981).
In 1964, Wallace published ''Ranald S. McKenzie of the Texas Frontier'' a study of the exploits of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie (1840-1889) in the Texas Panhandle. IN He also published a study of the closing of the Texas frontier in 1965 entitled ''Texas in Turmoil''. His last book, ''The Howling of the Coyotes Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas'' in 1979 is a study of the attempt to divide Texas during [[Reconstruction]].<ref name=itwentybias>David Murrah, "Replacing the I-35 Bias with an I-20 Bias: The Landmark Work of Richardson, Holden, and Wallace," ''West Texas Historical Review,'' Vol. 90 (2014), pp. 54-55.</ref>
His 1943 doctoral [[dissertation]]. ''Charles De Morse, Editor and Statesman,'' was updated in 1979.<ref name=ttech>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00084/tsw-00084.html|title=Ernest Wallace: An Inventory of His Papers ... at the Southwest Collections Library|publisher=lib.utexas.edu|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref> Wallace also edited the acclaimed ''Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, written by Clayton Wheat Williams, Sr., father of the 1990 [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee]], Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr., who narrowly lost the race to the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[liberal]], [[Ann Richards]]. A paperback version was released in December 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flipkart.com/texas-last-frontier-clayton-williams/158544071x-zsx3fddwid|title=''Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos''|publisher=flipkart.com|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref>
==Early years and education==
Wallace was born to Thomas Wallace and the former Lula Barber in Daingerfield in Morris County in east Texas. His early education was procured in [[rural]] schools in Morris and neighboring Cass County. He received his [[Bachelor of Science]] degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, then known as East Texas Teacher's College. Wallace began his teaching career in the 1925-1926 academic year at the White Lick community east of Sweetwater in Nolan County in West Texas; there he wed his wife, the former Ellen Kegans (January 16, 1908 – October 12, 1987), a college classmate fromMerkel in Taylor County near Abilene, and the couple had a daughter.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwaaj|author=H. Allen Anderson|title=Ernest Wallace|publisher=''Handbook of Texas: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref>
The next year, he returned to East Texas to teach at Linden in Cass County, where he was also a |coach. For some eight years, he was until 1935 the superintendent of the public school in the Cornett community in Cass County. From 1935 to 1936, he taught in Tulia in Swisher County south of [[Amarillo]].<ref name=itwentybias/><ref name=handbook/>
==University career==
Wallace received his [[Master of Arts]] degree at then Texas Technological College in 1935, after two years of study, and began as a Texas Tech instructor of history in 1936. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1941, associate professor in 1943, and full professor in 1946. In 1942, he completed his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Texas at Austin]], under the supervision of Professor Walter Prescott Webb, author of the definitive work, ''The Great Plains.'' From 1945 to 1949, he directed the Texas Tech summer school program and was the assistant dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1945 to 1955. He was awarded fellowships in 1938 and 1952, respectively, by the UT Regents and the [[Ford Foundation]]. He served for a time as a consultant to the [[United States Department of Justice]] regarding suits filed against the national government by the [[Kiowa]], Kiowa-Apache, and Comanche tribes.<ref name=handbook/>
From 1975 to 1979, he was consultant for ''The Great Chiefs'' and ''The Texans'' for ''[[Time-Life Books]].'' In 1967, he was among the first four professors named a Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, the highest recognition that the university bestows. He held the designation until his retirement in 1976, the official end of his 40-year career. Horn was the founding president of Texas Tech, having served from 1923 to 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swco.ttu.edu/University_Archive/uacollections11.html|title=List of Horn Professors at Texas Tech University|publisher=swco.ttu.edu|accessdate=September 13, 2009}}The next historian at Texas Tech so honored was Allan J. Kuethe] selected in 1990.</ref> In 1954, Wallace was named a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and served as president of the association from 1977 to 1978. In 1968, the West Texas [[Chamber of Commerce]] presented Wallace with the "Cultural Achievement Award for Significant Contributions to Historical Literature." In 1969, he received the Minnie Stevens Piper Award. In 1971, the West Texas Museum Association presented Wallace with its Action Award for his "outstanding contributions to the enrichment and culture" of the South Plains.<ref name=handbook/>
Among Wallace's colleagues at Texas Tech were professors emeriti [[Paul H. Carlson]] and Alwyn Barr,, other authors on Texas topics.
In 1975, Wallace received the Outstanding Teacher Award, which involved the establishment of the Ernest Wallace Scholarship in History, from the Texas Tech chapter of Phi Alpha Theta honor society. Though he suffered a heart attack in 1972, Wallace recovered to continue his academic duties and was still active professionally long after his retirement,<ref name=handbook/> having maintained an office in Holden Hall, the home of the Tech history department.
In addition to the Texas State and West Texas historical associations, Wallace was active in the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the [[Southern Historical Association]], the Western Historical Association, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, and the Texas Association of Classroom Teachers.<ref name=handbook/> The West Texas Historical Association offers the Ernest Wallace Grant for graduate student research at Texas Tech University.
He was a member of St. Paul's [[Episcopal]] Church, the Rotary International, and the Masonic lodge. Wallace died of a second heart attack at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. He and Mrs. Wallace are interred in Lubbock at Resthaven Memorial Park.<ref>''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal,'' November 18, 1985.</ref> His scholarly papers are housed in the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech.<ref name=ttech/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Ernest}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]