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Place: An Argument for Bioregional History

As he told the story, Walter Prescott Webb-widely-accepted among American environmental historians as one of the founding fathers of our discipline-began to conceptualize his most famous work, The Great Plains: A Study in Institutions and Environment, at the age of five. Raised as a young child in Panola County, Texas, deep in the heart of Southern culture, where thickly-timbered rolling hills screened the horizon and even the overhead sky was only partially visible through the soaring loblolly pines, Webb had not yet started to school when his family moved to Central Texas. In the Western Cross Timbers province at the edge of the Great Plains, the future thinker of big ideas found himself stimulated by another world. Here no loblollies blocked the skies, and across the grasslands the horizon was miles distant, visible like the encircling rim of a bowl in every direction. Here King Cotton and backwoods truck-garden farms gave way to fenced spreads enclosing the Sacred Cow. Young Walter Webb was fascinated at the