About this title: Land Is the Cry! is the fascinating story of Warren Ferris, a New York Yankee who deserves to be remembered as the "Father of Dallas County". Except for a twist of fate, Dallas, Texas, would have been named "Warwick" by its two founders, surveyor Ferris and land speculator William P. King. Historian A. C. Greene calls Warren Ferris the most "unappreciated figure in Dallas history". But Ferris has more than regional significance, for his remarkable story encompasses three arenas: the Niagara frontier of western New York, the fur-trading country of the Rocky Mountains, and frontier northeast ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assoc., Austin
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780876111611ISBN:0876111614
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. 266pp. including index, maps. The economic and sociological significance of the land speculators and surveyors in early 19th century Texas. Ferris was a founder of Dallas, Texas. This copy still in publisher's shrink wrap. read more
Description: New. Published in 1998 by the Texas State Historical Association, a fine 247-page hardcove book in a nice dust jacket, unread, unused & unmarked, this is a new gift-quality copy. (TX73) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association, Austin Texas
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780876111611ISBN:0876111614
Description: New in New jacket. 246 pages, illustrations, frontis, fold-out map. "Ferris merited fame even before he came to Texas in 1837. While working as a trapper and fur trader in the Rocky Mountains for six years, Ferris kept a diary of his adventures. This journal, the classic Life in the Rocky Mountains, accompanied by a map which he drew from memory, provided a unique and valuable picture of trapper and Indian life in the 1830s. Ferris also gave the public its first written description of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
Date Published: 1998-01
ISBN-13:9780876111611ISBN:0876111614
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