The Junior Historian, Volume 26, Number 2, November 1965 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS-1897President:
J. P. BRYAN
Vice-Presidents:
JOSEPH SCHMITZ
SEYMOUR V. CONNOR WAYNE GARD
RUPERT N. RICHARDSONDirector:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Sec. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLISTHE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center
Box 8059, University Station
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
Editor
H. BAILEY CARROLLFRANCES V. PARKER
BARBARA CUMMINGSAssociate Editors:
ALWYN BARRDAVID B. GRACY, II
JOANNE SKILLING"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESENT
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People who are indifferent
to their PAST need hope to make their FUTURE great."
Issued six times during the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription $2.00; club subscription (five or more to chapter members) $1.50
each. Second-class postage paid at Austin, Texas.
CAN HISTORY WAIT?
by CLINTON P. HARTMANN
[reprinted from the March, 1955, Junior Historian]Ninety-seven [now one hundred-seven] years
ago the crack of a whip and a shout from the
driver started a stagecoach on a route that was
to become famous as the Butterfield Overland
Mail. As well-known as the opening of this
route was and as captivating as it was to the
imagination of those then living, it took Roscoe
P. Conkling almost a score of years to trace
the road and to tell its story.
The publication of the Handbook of Texas
by the Texas State Historical Association in
1952, represents twelve years of collecting and
sifting material important to the development
of Texas. Outstanding as the people and places
included in this book are to Texas, it took
scores of writers innumerable hours to recreate
the past from scattered source material.
Junior Historians might take notice of these
great efforts to reconstruct history and direct
part of their energy to recording and evaluating
events of historical significance as they occur.
Members who have done work in this direc-
tion already are to be congratulated, but there
are many incidents each year that pass unno-
ticed as prominent history. Just imagine the
valuable contributions that could be made tocoming generations by the accurate chronicling
of the present.
A Junior Historian movement seventy-five
years ago would have been a great help to
Conkling and the Texas State Historical Asso-
ciation in their work.
The Junior Historians in the past sixteen
[now twenty-six] years have been successful in
bringing to light lesser-known personalities and
happenings of Texas history. A devotion of
their time to setting down the interesting and
important occurrences of today and recent
years will help meet a definite need of future
students of history. Personal observations and
source materials such as newspapers, manu-
scripts, interviews, court records, and files of
government agencies and private businesses are
usually accessible in the present. The passing
time makes facts harder to obtain, increasing
the work of the historian.
Swante Palm may have had in mind the old
adage, "Don't put off until tomorrow what you
can do today" when he commented, "One kind
of history may well be written as it happens
. [because] the next day it begins to be
obscured by time." And that is a good motto
for any historian.
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