The Buffalo Gap Historic Village, in Buffalo Gap, Texas, got its start 
in 1956 as the "Ernie Wilson Museum of the Old West" and was 
housed in the original Taylor County Courthouse. Over the next fifty 
years, however, the museum evolved into a full-fledged historic 
village, boasting twenty buildings and more than 9,000 artifacts. With 
this transformation, the historic village also began to tell a story about 
the history of a time period—the critical decades between 1875 and 
1925.

    The Texas You Expect™ does more than simply relate the 
history of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village. It tells the story of how a 
frontier transformed into a heartland of America. Following the three 
interpretive periods displayed at the historic village (1883, 1904, 
1925), the authors paint a picture of what life in America was like in 
each of those decades. The book weaves together the story of the 
practical and technological advances that ultimately brought the 
frontier period to an end. Using the buildings and artifacts of the 
village as examples, the book acts as a virtual tour, not only of the 
historic village, but of this critical half century of our nation's past. 

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DONALD S. FRAZIER, ROBERT F. PACE, and ROBERT P. 
WETTEMANN, JR. are all professors of history at McMurry 
University in Abilene, Texas. The Grady McWhiney Research 
Foundation, which owns and operates the historic village, is 
headquartered out of the university, and the authors are heavily 
involved in the organization as President, Vice President, and 
Director of Historical Interpretation, respectively.


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