Ep. 76: The Texas Cattle Queen
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Right after the civil war, women weren’t really expected (or even thought capable) to be in business. But of course, Texas women proved them wrong. Lizzie Johnson was a school teacher, but she was also a writer and discovered how lucrative the cattle business could be. So she became a cattle baroness and Austin real estate mogul. Learn more about the Texas Cattle Queen in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, your award-winning Texas |
| 0:12.2 | History Podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | This is your host, Ken Wise. |
| 0:14.9 | I really appreciate you tuning in today |
| 0:17.1 | for Little Texas History. |
| 0:18.8 | I want to start by thanking everybody |
| 0:20.7 | for all the feedback on the interview with author Stephen Herrigan and |
| 0:24.6 | his new book Big Wonderful Thing. Keep it coming. I've got another interview |
| 0:30.3 | scheduled this week. I'm going to record it as a matter of fact I think you'll find it |
| 0:34.7 | interesting as another in the writing Texas history series but from a little bit |
| 0:39.7 | different angles so stay tuned it may be a regular episode, maybe a bonus episode, but I enjoyed |
| 0:47.3 | during the interview and Stephen Herringen's books doing very well and I'm very interested in all your thoughts on it. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, it's finally getting cooler as we record this episode. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm recording and releasing this episode in October 2019 and the cooler weather |
| 1:08.1 | usually means football my football mood is sort of up and down this year. |
| 1:12.8 | Hope your football season's going well. |
| 1:15.7 | But what is going on right now as I record this |
| 1:18.5 | is the Houston Astros are playing the Washington Nationals |
| 1:21.0 | in the World Series, and they just tied it up two games |
| 1:23.7 | to two last night so we're all very excited in the Houston area for the Astros. |
| 1:28.8 | If all means hunting season two for all of you I hope you're getting outdoors enjoying some of the great hunting we haven't. hunting hot one-day cool the next this time of year. I call it one straw day then a felt day. |
| 1:46.3 | Anyway the older I get the more I certainly enjoy our cool weather and I'm lucky to spend a lot of |
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