Rip Ford's Texas
John Salmon Ford
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Release Date: 01/02/1987
Genre: Home & Garden
Sub-Genre: Local History & Genealogy
Label: University of Texas Press
Series: Personal Narratives of the West
Contributors: Stephen B. Oates (Edited by)
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Pages: 572
The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected representative, and above all, soldier and Indian fighter, Ford sat down in his old age to record the events of the turbulent years through which he had lived. Stephen Oates has edited Ford's memoirs to produce a clear and vigorous personal history of Texas.