EP 42: Beer, Heroes, and Life on the Bluff
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Mexican invasion of San Antonio gave rise to two expeditions against the Mexican army that had disastrous results. Nicholas Dawson led a group of men from La Grange to San Antonio into battle on Salado Creek only to be massacred when they tried to surrender. A group of men under William Fisher attacked Mier only to be imprisoned and every tenth man executed after drawing a black bean from a jar. The bones of the Texas fighters languished on the banks of Salado Creek and in Mexico until they were returned to Fayette County in 1848 and buried on a bluff overlooking LaGrange, Texas. The tomb’s builder bought the land on the bluff and turned it into a thriving community center. How did he do it? Well, he did the most German thing possible–he built a brewery. The brewery brought folks that honored the heroes and the folks honoring the heroes bought beer. Life on Kreische’s bluff was good. Learn more about this beautiful and sacred site in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you |
| 0:14.6 | very much for listening and for loving Texas and its unique and wonderful |
| 0:19.2 | history. This episode is being released in July of 2017, so I'll say that I hope everybody's summer is going well. |
| 0:27.0 | My own two kids are at that road trip age right now, so we took a little 2,300 mile road trip a couple weeks ago |
| 0:35.6 | which was a wonderful experience it set the production schedule of the |
| 0:40.3 | podcast behind a little bit and I'm sorry about that but it was of the and it was a great experience and of course they're my kids so we did a little bit of history stuff in New Orleans and other Civil War sites and just had a great time but I'm back at the Texas history workbench and I have some great ideas from listeners for some upcoming episodes. I've got about three or four in progress. |
| 1:12.5 | So I'm going to narrow those, narrow my focus a little bit |
| 1:15.8 | and get to work on that. |
| 1:17.9 | Since the last episode came out, we, as I predicted, |
| 1:22.0 | have reached over 100,000 downloads. |
| 1:24.2 | We're actually up to about 107,000 downloads, |
| 1:27.3 | which just blows my mind. |
| 1:29.2 | I just want to thank everybody who subscribes |
| 1:31.8 | to this podcast who has listened to the shows and enjoyed it. |
| 1:35.0 | Please keep the feedback coming. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm very interested in your opinion and I hope that you will share this show with a friend |
| 1:42.0 | who loves Texas as much as you do. |
| 1:44.0 | What I wanted to do since we're in the dead middle of the summer, I wanted to do an |
| 1:48.4 | episode that was a little bit lighter and I was inspired by the road trip I mentioned earlier seeing some |
| 1:55.0 | sites and and I was also inspired by beer as we all are and so I think I'm |
| 2:01.7 | going to combine the two and we're going to discuss today a |
| 2:05.0 | place that you can easily go see and also involves Germans and beer two of my |
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