and that nickname was given to him by jane harris. and jane harris said, well, honest bob is anything but honest because after john r. harris died in 1828 wilson and the other harris sued the estate of john r. harris and claimed part of his business as their own. but on this day they're all friends. they're all getting along. and they get on the steamboat. and as they pull away from buffalo mile the mexican advance scouts appeared and started shooting at them. so now you've got the government, which is one battle away from being in exile, chugging down the buffalo bayou, which is now the houston ship channel, escaping the mexicans. it was just -- it was about this close. so now the government is on this steamboat. in the meantime the land speculators arrive back in lynch's ferry. they took a boat all the way to lynch's. gray and triplett get out there. and sterling neblitt who's the one who advanced the money, he gets on his horse and he's riding straight to harrisburg. they said get your signature on that contract, get the government

and they wanted to buy that land from jane harris but they couldn't buy the land from jane harris because honest bob and william peter had still had a lawsuit against the estate and she didn't have clear title. so they went even further to the intersection of buffalo bayou and white oak bayou, bought two sections of land from the widow of john austin, and said we're going to put our city here. so then they sent an agent to new orleans, where sam houston was recuperating from his leg wound in the opulent home of william christie, who was the notary who drafted the loan documents, and said general houston, we'd like to name our city, our new city in your honor 1/4 wehono honor, and we'd like to pay you a $2,000 retainer for helping us to promote it. and he undoubtedly said something like where have you guys been all my life? so that's how the city of houston dame came to be where it is. henry smith and sam houston searched for solutions to the debt problems of texas. he said, well, how did we do, henry in henry smith prepared this report. he said, well, we had $850,000 in military expenses,