eventually the land ended up mostly in the hands of a man named patrick dunn. this was in the 1870s. the story of patrick dunn is a pretty amazing one. he was born in corpus christi in 1858. in his teenage

patrick carefully rolling -- we'll pet the video if we can. rolling the 21-year-old from burning car then carrying her to safety. the woman was driving down a road near dunnsprings when she lost control ran off the road crashed in tree and her car caught fire unfortunately. but again he was able to get her out. he called for help while others attended to the woman. she was bleeding from the head but did not suffer any major injuries. again very quick work. >> there was another rescue on new york highway. in this case strangers ran from the vehicle toward a burning car then reached into the flames to save a woman trapped inside. here's more. >>reporter: tonight newly released dash cam video of massive highway accident and amazing rescue. watch as the crash unfolds in a split second. tracktor trailer barreling through a line of cars. causing this 10 car pileup. >> tractor trailer over an suv that is on fireworks inside the white car on the shoulder a woman is trapped. construction workers and other motorist rush to her aid. complete strangers desperate to save her. >> completely clock. several cars on fire. we have several people trapped. >>reporter: as goo

eventually the land ended up mostly in the hands of a man named patrick dunn. this was in the 1870s. the story of patrick dunn is a pretty amazing one. he was born in corpus christi in 1858. in his teenage years, he started being a cowboy. he was working for different cattle rampnches and he absoluty loved it. he knew it was his way of life. there was something invented in the 1870s that revolutionized cattle ranching in the western united states. that was barbed wire. what you used to have is the open cattle ranches. you would actually have somebody who could get cattle, have them wandering all over the place, and eventually take them to market. with barbed wire, all the people who actually had land claims would put fences around their land. that -- that almost was the end of the open cattle range. but there's a few people who really, really loved cattle ranching and who didn't want to let them stop them and they didn't have the huge ranches that like we see in southern texas. what they did is they came out to padre island. what made it ideal for cattle ranche