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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 Texas during the years of the Republic. 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 that 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 Yellowstone's amazing geysers. As a businessman seeking to become a landowner, furtrader Ferris followed his brother Charles to Texas the year after the Texas Revolution. He became the official surveyor for Nacogdoches County, which then included much of northeast Texas west to the Trinity River. Although his brother returned to their hometown of Buffalo, New York, Warren Ferris spent another thirty-five years of his eventful life in Texas. Surveying at the Three Forks of the Trinity in 1839, Ferris entered the area before John Neely Bryan, the traditionally recognized founder of Dallas, and Ferris's surveys determined the line of streets and roadsthat shaped the future county. In 1847, Ferris settled down to farming east of White Rock Creek, where he raised a family and helped build a community. This literate and versatile character was also a prolific letterwriter, and much of the family correspondence to and from Buffalo has been preserved. These Ferris letters, and other family materials covering the period 1828-1885, help reconstruct the exciting life and times of Warren Ferris.

This engaging study of women in early Texas fills an important gap in the history of the state. First published by John Jenkins in 1975 and long out of print, Women in Early Texas is now available again with a new scholarly introduction by award-winning Texas historian Debbie Mauldin Cottrell. The volume contains biographies of fifty notable women representing a wide variety of ethnic groups and classes whose lives deeply influenced the way Texas developed. Many of the biographies were written by descendants of the women and have been extensively researched and supplemented by heretofore unused family records and papers. The stories of these inspiring women are fine examples of local history and will be of interest to scholars doing research, teachers seeking classroom material and general readers looking for stories of women out of Texas's past. Debbie Mauldin Cottrell's introduction places this groundbreaking book and these diverse women in historical perspective, and provides an excellent bibliography of other sources for researchers and readers.

This enormous catalogue contains documentation on more than 3,900 Texas imprints produced between 1861 and 1876.

First published in 1857, the Texas Almanac has a long history of chronicling the Lone Star State and its residents. The Almanac's 66th edition includes hundreds of photographs from every region of the state. Colour maps of the state and each of its 254 counties show relief, major and minor roads, waterways, parks, and other attractions. Each county map is accompanied by a profile.

A tale of the Mexican army's misfortunes in the aptly named ""Sea of Mud,"" where more than 2,500 Mexican soldiers and 1,500 female camp followers foundered in the muddy fields of Wharton County, Texas. Following some preliminary research, the author focused his search on the area between the San Bernard and West Bernard rivers.

A cautionary tale about the difficulties of anticipating ripple effects from large-scale public works ""solutions"" and adequate planning for their environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. It is a central Texas tale that is pertinent in all of America's ""oasis"" cities, a story that defines American patterns of suburban development.

This is an English translation of Nicolas de La Salle's diary account of Rene-Robert Caveller, Sleur de La Salle's 1682 discovery expedition of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

A biography of a highly unconventional woman. Jane McManus Storm Cazneau was often at the centre of a controversy, whether it was as Aaron Burr's mistress, behind enemy lines in the Mexican War, filibustering for Cuba or Nicaragua, or urging free blacks to emigrate to the Dominican Republic.

This readable and thoroughly documented volume relates the fascinating story of the French Legation in Austin. The oldest house in the city, it was built in 1840-1841 as the residence of the French chargé d'affaires to the fledgling Republic of Texas. Alphonse Dubois, the self-styled "Count de Saligny," dazzled frontier Texans with elegant parties until he was recalled after less than a year in Austin.

Contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins's time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and humanity that is Cummins's hallmark.