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From Syria to Seminole : memoir of a High Plains merchant
- Title
- From Syria to Seminole : memoir of a High Plains merchant / Ed Aryain ; edited and with an Introduction by J'Nell L. Pate ; foreword by John R. Wunder ; afterword by Edward Aryain and Jameil Aryain.
- Author
- Aryain, Ed.
- Publication
- Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Pate, J'Nell L.
- Description
- xxxvii, 260 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In August of 1897, in the small village of Henna, Syria, eighteen miles from Damascus, Mohammed (ED) Aryain was born. As far back as he could remember, Ed dreamed of moving to the United States. In the early twentieth century Syria still suffered from high taxation and control under the Ottoman Turks. Ed saw Syrians who had been to America returning home with gold watches and money to purchase land, and he vowed to do the same." "Although his parents did not want him to go, eventually they relented and watched fifteen-year-old Ed begin a 120-mile walk to Beirut to board a steamship. He tells of his emotional first view of the Statue of Liberty and of his traumatic passage through Ellis Island. Joining the network of Syrians who supported themselves by peddling dry goods, Ed traveled across the Great Plains. Later he rented store-fronts in wild oil-boom towns in Oklahoma and Texas." "Finally he married an American woman and settled in West Texas, living in Littlefield, Sudan, Brownfield, and finally in Seminole, where he operated his own store on the town square until 1952. But even after decades in the United States, a man never forgets his homeland, and after nearly fifty years in America Ed returned briefly to Syria to visit those who remained of the family he had left behind."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Plains histories
- Uniform Title
- Plains histories.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-245) and index.
- ISBN
- 0896725863 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780896725867
- LCCN
- 2006005512
- OCLC
- ocm64442757
- SCSB-5280737
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries