35-xx-xx ep25Stephen F Austin

Frontier Fighters! Here Fighters! Stowhearted men and sacrificing heroic women who fought their way across hundreds of miles

of unblazed trails to bring the light of civilization to the west. Among the many valiant pioneers who have entered the Valhalla of the Great, we must place the life and accomplishments of Stephen Fuller Austin, the father of Texas.

The man who had the first vision of colonizing Texas was Moses Austin, Stephen's father, but on the eve of becoming the leader of the first party of pioneers shortly after his return from texas he was stricken with pneumonia as you lay on his bed he made his wife promise here you have good way

the name of stan will live only because of my divine mission in texas called steven home here is my last wish the detail come to himself my mantle of leadership mosey usually quite the doctor Oh, Dr. Bern has his young fool to think he can hoodwink me into believe when I'm not going today.

Oh. sooner perhaps than I thought. Because of his mania for blistered and bleeding his patients. But no matter. Call Stephen home. Tell him God in his wisdom has seen it best that I do not accomplish the plans I have formed for my nation and my family.

But in laying down my life, I do so with the knowledge that all will yet be well. Tell my boy to be wise and good and patient. Tell him his father alone. Tell him to be our leader in the wilderness.

When Stephen F. Austin was called home to receive the burden of his father's last words, he was only 28 years old. But he immediately dedicated his life to this tremendous undertaking. colonization of this promised land. The first step was the long, arduous journey to Texas, to receive from Governor Martinez at San Antonio permission to colonize. Said the easygoing