{"id":337607,"date":"2026-06-15T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:54:08","slug":"renowned-texas-historian-t-lindsay-baker-dies-in-arizona-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337607\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Texas historian T. Lindsay Baker dies in Arizona car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Texas archivist community is remembering the legacy of renowned historian and author Thomas Lindsay \u201cT. Lindsay\u201d Baker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He died in a car crash in Flagstaff, Arizona Thursday. He was a representative of the Lone Star State in the Route 66 Centennial Caravan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Baker was a long-time member of the Texas State Historical Association and was known as a \u201cdean of Texas historians,\u201d a title only few highly respected scholars hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the university\u2019s special collections library, Baker earned his bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and Ph.D. degrees from Texas Tech. He later started his educational career at Tech teaching history before moving on to Baylor and later Tarleton State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He also worked at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, where he was the curator of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Baker was 79 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An inventory of Bakers papers can be found on the<a href=\"https:\/\/txarchives.org\/ttusw\/finding_aids\/00413.xml\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/txarchives.org\/ttusw\/finding_aids\/00413.xml\"> Texas Archrival Resource Online website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Texas archivist community is remembering the legacy of renowned historian and author Thomas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[120457,319,66,168,170,169,11490,120456,120454,120458,120455,46718],"class_list":["post-337607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-flagstaff-car-crash","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-texas","tag-route-66-centennial-caravan","tag-t-lindsay-baker","tag-texas-archivist","tag-texas-historian","tag-texas-state-historical-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}