All these magazines are
liberated from provincialism.
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
Every state in the Southwest has a state historical
organization that publishes. The oldest and most productive of
these, outside of California, is the Texas State Historical
Association, with headquarters at Austin.
HISTORIES
A majority of the state histories of the Southwest have been
written with the hope of securing an adoption for school use.
It would require a blacksnake whip to make most juve-
niles, or adults either, read these productions, as devoid of
picturesqueness, life-blood, and intellectual content as so
many concrete slabs. No genuinely humanistic history of the
Southwest has ever been printed. There are good factual
histories--and a history not based on facts can't possibly be
good--but the lack of synthesis, of intelligent evaluations,
of imagination, of the seeing eye and portraying hand is too
evident. The stuff out of which history is woven--diaries,
personal narratives, county histories, chronicles of ranches
and trails, etc.--has been better done than history itself.
FOLKLORE
Considered scientifically, folklore belongs to science and not
to the humanities.
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