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'''Ernest Wallace''' (June 11, 1906 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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==

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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, who had no middle name, wrote eleven books on Texas history. In 1952, with E. Adamson Hoebel, he co-authored ''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.  

With David M. Vigness, he co-edited in 1963 ''Documents of Texas History.''

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, he co-authored Richardson's ''Texas: The Lone Star State'' (1970 and 1981).

With Adrian N. Anderson and Rupert N. Richardson of Hardin-Simmons University in [[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>​

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. n 1965, he published a study of the closing of the Texas frontier entitled ''Texas in Turmoil''. His last book in 1979, ''The Howling of the Coyotes Reconstruction Efforts to Divide Texas'' is a study of divisions in Texas [[Reconstruction]] in the aftermath of the [[American Civil War]].<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>​

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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==

==Early years and education==

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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 &ndash; 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>​

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 &ndash; 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>​