Ernest Wallace

Ernest Wallace (June 11, 1906 – November 17, 1985) was an historian of Texas, the American West and the southern Great Plains, who was affiliated with Texas Tech University in 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 its fifteenth edition in 2014, remains a pre-eminent study of the Comanche. 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, 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 S. Mackenzie in the Texas Panhandle, and 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 the attempt to divide Texas during Reconstruction.