The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 249
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Texas Collection
ancestral home in Virginia. The Berclair Blossom, first and only
newspaper, was printed on a hand press by Jim Jordan, a great
walker, so tall he could step over fences.
R. K. Phillips, postmaster and editor of the Weatherford
Democrat, published a 28-page pamphlet entitled Round Trip
Texas to North Carolina. This is a description of a trip made in
1938. The book is dated June 1, 1939.
W. Turrentine Jackson, in investigating the early history of
Yellowstone National Park, has found that Warren Angus Ferris,
the first known individual to describe the natural phenomena of
the Yellowstone region, was an early resident of Texas. Ferris'
descriptive account was printed in the Western Literary Messenger
of July 13, 1842, and reprinted in The Wasp, a Mormon news-
paper of Nauvoo, Illinois, August 13, 1842. After an active career
as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains, Ferris moved to Texas, home-
steading at Reinhardt, some six miles northeast of Dallas. Because
of his advanced years, Ferris did not join the Confederate Army,
but remained in Texas to rear his family and to become a local
authority on hunting and trapping in the Far West. An adven-
turous life in the Rockies furnished ample material for his prose
and poetic accounts published in various newspapers. Today
there is small trace of the home or last resting place of this
early western explorer and Texas pioneer who died near Dallas,
Texas, February 8, 1873, at sixty-three years of age.
At a recent meeting of the State Textbook Board two Texas
histories were adopted for high schools. Both carry a 1939 copy-
right date; both were written by members of the Association.
They will be reviewed in the January issue of the Quarterly.
The basal book, Texas: Land of Promise, was written by Pro-
fessor J. L. Clark of Sam Houston State Teachers College at
Huntsville. The book contains 534 pages and is published by
D. C. Heath & Co.
Professor Ralph W. Steen of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College is the author of History of Texas, published by the E. L.249
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