Walter Prescott WebbPapers 1857-1966

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Walter Prescott WebbPapers 1857-1966

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Historian WalterPrescott Webb taught at the University of Texas at Austin (1918-1963), servedas director of the Texas State Historical Association (1939-1946), and authoredground-breaking works on the history of Texas and the American West.

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