From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant

by Ed Aryain

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725863
• ISBN13: 9780896725867
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"