From Frontier to Metropolis: [Souvenir and History With Official Program of the Fort Worth Diamond Jubilee, an Event Commemorating the Years of Founding and Incorporation, November 11-12-13-14, 1923]. Page: 3
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FOREWORD .
HE winter of 4 9 wasvpving portentous.
Mexco had just been thoroughly conquered by swiftmong
armies under Scott and Taylor.- The far West
ht been torn from Latin domination. Texas was free.
Across the Mississippi and up the Arkansas, the dr-'and the
Missouri, and all of the network of great rivers of the W:st streamed
a gallant c6 course of gentleman adventurers. Therebwere great stirrings
thrqthout the land of the setting sun. Were they n t mining
gold by pOch-full in every creek and draw in California? lere not
the streams o. the West alive with beaver? Did not the buffalo herds
blacken :-he e/Alians? /
Fortdtes were. for those who ranked stro en to tear them
from wild frontier:ihd-wyilder savage, who from timt to time sought
to fling tlCftrontier back with hammer blows.
C(eat fortunes they were! And the winning o them such joy to
a rare of men who admired only courage and f otitude and strength.
fThe great stretches, the fallow plains, swt men. They cried
oit to the colonizing genius of the Angle ancthe Saxon, whose benevolent
greed for land had advanced world civilization focjrfive hundred
ears. , .
L!And of all the open country Texas sounded strongest call to the
pioner. Born in adventure, rife withlgend, stretching vast and
.oiodoi nd seemingly untamable, xas challenged each passing
'tAlwart to pause and have one -fng with fortune.
hca\ ``;j ncan true pioneer resist such a call? It was in the winter of
hat'Fort Worth was born. .
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From Frontier to Metropolis: [Souvenir and History With Official Program of the Fort Worth Diamond Jubilee, an Event Commemorating the Years of Founding and Incorporation, November 11-12-13-14, 1923]., book, 1923; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33016/m1/3/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.