--- title: "4 Walter Prescott Webb Quotes - Famous Historian (The Great Plains)" description: "Walter Prescott Webb was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Associ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b043/author-walter-prescott-webb-74042.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Walter Prescott Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b043/author-walter-prescott-webb-74042.jpg) # Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963) Historian **4** quotes in **22** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Walter Prescott Webb was a historian, best known for *The Great Plains*. ## Quick Facts About Walter Prescott Webb Born April 3, 1888 Died March 8, 1963 Profession Historian Notable works The Great Plains ## About Walter Prescott Webb Walter Prescott Webb was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas. He is a member of the Hall of Great Westerners, which is a part of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. ## Quotes by Walter Prescott Webb > [“It would be very interesting to speculate on what the human imagination is going to do with a frontierless world where it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-prescott-webb/it-would-be-very-interesting-to-speculate-on-what-the-human/) [Walter Prescott Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-prescott-webb/) [Human imagination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-imagination/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/walter-prescott-webb-74042_human-imagination_it-would-be-very-interesting-to-speculat_429650.jpg) > [Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-prescott-webb/historically-the-buffalo-had-more-influence-on-man-than-all-other/) [Walter Prescott Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-prescott-webb/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/walter-prescott-webb-74042_animal_historically-the-buffalo-had-more-influe_627650.png) > [In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-prescott-webb/in-their-efforts-to-provide-a-sufficiency-of-water-where-there-was/) [Walter Prescott Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-prescott-webb/) [Dynamite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dynamite/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb5/walter-prescott-webb-74042_dynamite_in-their-efforts-to-provide-a-sufficienc_2583317.jpg) > [“The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-prescott-webb/the-real-scholar-must-choose-truth-and-somehow-it-is-better-if-it-is/) [Walter Prescott Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-prescott-webb/) [Truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/truth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf5/walter-prescott-webb-74042_truth_the-real-scholar-must-choose-truth-and-s_2743842.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-prescott-webb/#itemlist", "name": "Walter Prescott Webb Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It would be very interesting to speculate on what the human imagination is going to do with a frontierless world where it must seek its inspiration in uniformity rather than variety, in sameness rather than contrast, in safety rather than peril, in probing the harmless nuances of the known rather than the thundering uncertainties of unknown seas or continents. 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