Historic Plaque, Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years
Description:
Photograph of a historic plaque in Breckenridge, Texas. It reads: "Walter Prescott Webb's Formative Years. Noted historian Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) came with his family to Stephens County at the age of four. Over the next seventeen years, Webb received an education in frontier life that formed the basis of his intellectual development and his theories on the role of the Great Plains in American history. Webb's father, Casner, was a rural schoolteacher and farmer. As he moved to differen…
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Date:
April 14, 2006
Creator:
Belden, Dreanna L.
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Location:
32.7573900842859 -98.90469342459107
Partner:
UNT Libraries