lamarr chose a man named edwin waller to come up. up inss was due to show october 1839. out all the streets, decided where the government buildings would be, and he had them built. there was nothing fancy. these were rough log cabins. the exceptions were the capital and president's house, framed lumber. in october 1839, i what i imagine was the highest watermark of lamarr's political career, he made this grand entrance into the city which he had helped build. here, one of houston's supporters in the fourth congress stood of and introduced a bill that would immediately pull government out of austin down to houston again. that went nowhere, and then lamar's supporters kicked into action and started talking up a bill that would organize an expedition to go out to santa fe. they left austin in late june of 1840. it proved to be another disaster. .hey went north they were to leave dinner leaving because they did not take long enough -- they do not take enough cows. once they got the cows they headed north again. he turned left at the wrong river and got hopelessly lost. they