| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2 | The History Cooperative

*Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State.* By Laura Lyons McLemore. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. ix + 130 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Inventing Texas is intellectual history, and sad to say, almost too intellectual for most Texans. McLemore explains to our fellow Texans why they think of their history as they do, how those who fashioned the myth of Texas—Anglo-Texan superiority, environmental exploitation, etc.—came to do so, and simultaneously demonstrates historiographical analysis.	1
Having taught Texas history for nearly forty years and read at least part of the writings of the dozen or so authors whose works are analyzed, I believe that I understand the majority of what the author explains here, but then I may be flattering myself. Either way, I pretty well concur with her conclusions. Texas history, then, is not only myth, it is a small part of a larger American, even Western European myth. Its earliest writers saw only its parts but not the sum of the whole; later writers may have glimpsed the larger picture but by then the grip of the myth was too great.	. . .

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