emily austen was his sister. and stephen kept writing to her in missouri. that's where they were found anything come to texas because pretty soon the freeway and is going to close and you need to come now. and he said whatever you do, do not bring heavy furniture. we just have to deal with us here and everybody has the same things. and emily brought her piano from missouri by a horse and wagon. it took months to get here. but again, she had been well educated and she was a pianist and she was not about to lose her culture. and that was another example of what was going on. i also did a chapter on the parker rated, the rate of four parker. and all of us know their story. she was nine years old during the raid and he was adopted by the indians and clearly became an indian. loved the indians and married this man and had the last of the comanches. i also wrote a lot about rachel parker, her cousin. her cousin who is 18 years old and had more experience that others have. great historians have wrote in their definitive history that was the people who were killed

the most accurate man, emily austen, who is the richest woman in texas when she died in 1860. the next time she had really rich businesswomen. she took the first ferry to go back and forth. across the infiniti river and up the first time you could start to go out west from east texas. and then she eventually built this and she was a great investor and a wonderful woman. by all accounts, she was a very generous and good person. she was revered and considered one of the founders and the woman in houston wasn't much the same way. they expanded the houston post and television stations were sold for hundreds of millions toward the end of the life. but she also made it such a success in world war ii, but it was clearly the precursor of women being able to come into the military. she was the only woman who had part of the world war ii memorial in washington dc. and she was asked by president roosevelt who wrote a description of what volunteer women with you in the ward because they needed the man to be able to fight and fly the airplanes. they wanted women to do the best job that the