From Syria to Seminole - Memoir of a High Plains Merchant

Informationen zum Autor J'Nell Pate is the author of six books, including, most recently America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels, and a weekly history column in her local newspaper. She lives in Azle, Texas. Klappentext Tells the story of a Syrian immigrant who found success in America peddling dry goods across the Great Plains. Zusammenfassung Mohammed (Ed) Aryain saw Syrians who had been to America returning home with gold watches and money to purchase land! and he vowed to do the same. Ed began a 120-mile walk to Beirut to board a steamship. This book tells of his emotional first view of the Statue of the Liberty and of his traumatic passage through Ellis Island.

Product details

• Authors: Ed Aryain, Jo Nell L. (EDT)/ Wunder, J&apos Nell L./ Pate, J&apos Pate, J'Nell L./ Pate Pate
• Assisted by: Pate (Editor), J'Nell Pate (Editor), J'Nell L. Pate (Editor)
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2006
• EAN: 9780896725867
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-586-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Plains Histories; Plains Histories Series; Plains Histories; Plains Histories Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies