Dallas, TX Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Contrary to popular belief, there's no oil in glitzy, status-conscious DALLAS . Since its foundation as a prairie trading post, by Tennessee lawyer John Neely Bryan and his Arkansan friend Joe Dallas in 1841, successive generations of entrepreneurs have amassed wealth here through trade and finance, using first cattle and later oil reserves as collateral. One early group of European settlers of the 1850s – a group of French intellectuals and artists known as the La Reunion co-operative – had to pack up and move on after a series of summer droughts and a harsh winter; the few who stayed would include … more »