Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise. Thank you very much for

tuning in today for Little Texas History. I'm recording and releasing this show in

January 2022. That means we're coming into the high holy days of Texas history. This year I'm going to do some

alamo stuff so get ready. That's coming up. Be sure and look for Texas

Independence Celebrations around your area and if you can't find one put one on yourself

Texas is definitely worth celebrating.

Well as I've said many times on this show when you are studying Texas history some of the most interesting characters are women

Which for those of us who live here in Texas is no surprise

We're also in rodeo season, the Fort Worth Stock Show is going on as I record

this episode, San Antonio is coming up and then the biggest of them all, Houston Livestock Show and rodeos coming up.

So we're going to combine stock show season in Texas women and talk about the lady who became

an early Texas cattle baron or baroness I should say and also a bank

president so let's go back to the 1850s and get wise about Texas. We've touched on this before and in the middle 1800s, starting in 1843,

there were massive amounts of German immigration that occurred in Texas.

Now several German travelers had written about trips to Texas and published those writings in their native Germany and conditions in Germany at this time

made immigration desirable.

And so those two things combined to lead thousands of Germans to head for Texas.

And organizing all of this was the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas.

The German word for that society was named the Adlesverine.

And that organization started this immigration push

by buying some land near industry Texas.

It also bought a land grant called the Fisher Miller Grant and that

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