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'''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]].
'''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]].
==Historical Works==
==Historical works==
Wallace wrote eleven 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 Indians.<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.
Wallace wrote eleven 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 Indians.<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.
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>
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>
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>
==Earl years and education==
==Earl years and education==