| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3 | The History Cooperative

*Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas*. Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest. Edited by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. Foreword by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xvii + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)
One day while addressing a group of junior high Texas history students as a favor to a friend, I was confronted with perhaps the most critical question that could be asked of a professional historian: "How do you know? You weren't there." This adolescent's quip stuck with me for the drive back to the university—and beyond. How do we know what we claim to know as historians?	1
To quote Carlton Young's character Maxwell Scott in the 1962 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford), "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."	. . .

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