Ep 56: Texans You Should Know: Pamelia Mann
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What is it about Texas women? Independent, smart, strong, spirited, they can do it all! Ask any Texas man and he’ll tell you, the ladies run the show! But this is nothing new. Back before the Texas revolution, the women of Texas formed the spirit of Texas. Some were because their husbands moved the family to this new land of opportunity. These women did their best to build a household in the harsh Texas frontier, and they did it well. But some came on their own, and brought their spirit with them. That was Pamelia Mann. She was a Houston entrepreneur, hotelier, rancher, businesswoman, forger, possibly a thief, and willing to be a killer. She was even sentenced to death…but slipped the noose. During the Texas revolution she handed Sam Houston himself the only defeat he would suffer in command of the Texas Army. Celebrate the spirit of Texas women in this latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wies About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Ken Wise, reporting today from a 100-plus degree Texas summer. |
| 0:19.0 | If I really wanted to do a podcast on something that changed Texas history, I think I'd have to pick air conditioning. |
| 0:25.6 | Anyway, thank you for tuning in today for some Texas history. I want to start off today by saying a big thank you to everyone who on their summer road trips is listening to |
| 0:35.5 | Wies about Texas. I've gotten some great emails and pictures from all over the |
| 0:39.4 | country feedback from folks listening to the podcast on the road. |
| 0:43.0 | I appreciate that. I hope it's making your road trip a little bit easier. |
| 0:47.0 | Today I want to start by asking a question and the question is this, |
| 0:51.0 | what is it about Texas women? |
| 0:54.0 | Around the country, probably the world, if you want something done, |
| 0:58.0 | get a woman from Texas and it'll get done. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't care if it's a meal for 20, a house decorated, a horse trained and ridden, heck even a building built. |
| 1:07.0 | The kids raised, it doesn't matter. Texas women can do it. They look fantastic in the process and it has always been that way. You know think back to the Texas |
| 1:15.8 | Revolution. The men all went to fight and they were trying to build these |
| 1:21.2 | homesteads, these farms, these ranches, and they left to fight the Mexican Army. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, the chores and the children and the animals and the crops, all of that still required all the attention. So who do you think took charge and got all that done as well as fighting off hostile Indians? |
| 1:38.0 | Those were Texas women. That was who was in charge. Famous singer, sing about him, Hank Williams Jr. |
| 1:45.0 | Had a song about Texas Women, more recently Pat Green and my buddy Lyle Lovett, |
| 1:50.0 | made it clear that Texas girls are just a little bit better |
| 1:53.4 | and they do it all with style and grace. |
| 1:56.0 | Today we're going to meet another incredible Texas woman |
| 1:59.4 | who did it her way in her style. |
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