“In 1831 Ferris was with a trapping party on the upper Snake River...had trouble with a band of rival Hudson Bay trappers.” -Beaver County News, Jan. 2, 1941

“One of the earliest explorers to visit the Yellowstone...first one to have put into print a trustworthy description of it.” -Spokesman-Review, Jun. 30, 1940

“Ferris had many...narrow escapes from death...with the American Fur company.” -Brady Vindicator, Jan. 2, 1941

“Ferris...met Jim Bridger, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Robert Campbell...Milton Sublette...knew Bonneville.” -Mountain View Times, Jan. 2, 1941

From July 13, 1842 to May 4, 1844, Warren Angus Ferris (1810–1873) published a series of articles in the Western Literary Messenger, comprised of his diary while living the life of a mountain man in the West during the 1830s, under the title: Life in the Rocky Mountains.