Episode #4: Stephen F. Austin and The Old 300

Episode 4 in a sixty lesson course on the saga of the Texas Revolution and the Republic of Texas told by the world's leading expert on the Texas Revolution, Dr. Stephen L. Hardin of McMurry University.
This series was produced for Dr. Frazier in 2016.

[@Alexdapaul]

Love this

[@Zepto855]

My great grandmas grandpa was Elijah Alcorn my grandpa has so many books, pictures, and paperwork

[@inthewoodsbear6656]

I am from East Texas and I love a good story from our history

[@thetexascenter4059]

A big howdy to our folks out in East Texas!

[@JacqueBowlingMedium]

My 4th and 3rd great grandparents were apart of the Texas 300. My Grandfather Jack L. Gates bought tombstones for a few of them through the historical society. Glad I stumbled upon this.

[@thetexascenter4059]

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[@davidherringgo]

Thanks for this documentary , seeing this on the day before S.F.A.s birthday was timely.

[@TheMariepi3]

Possibly there were no Hispanic cowboys in Texas before 1820: it was not economically profitable to raise cows since the meat could not be marketed (there were no beef buyers), so the cows were released and these cows became maroon cows. (cimarron cattle) that from time to time were "hunted" with lasso or with a tool called a "desjarretador" (like a spear that cut tendons from the hind legs), sacrificed in the place where they had been hunted and only the skin was taken, the meat was abandoned. What was a profitable business was raising "mules" that were used a lot for transportation and that could be sold in Louisiana, in Cuba and in what is now Mexico (south of the Bravo or Grande River) (the Spaniards complained in writing that the Indians stole their mules to sell them to the French and Americans)

[@heatherdaigle822]

Great great great grandfather Amos Parker!!!!

[@susangathor4104]

There was no agreement between either Moses Austin and the Spanish OR Mexican government. Moses had simply approached the Spanish government before the revolution. Stephen made a deal with a single Mexican official. Neither Moses nor Stephen could even speak much less read Spanish.