Austin Pen is my interpretation of his scribblings in this miniature prison journal (now in the collection of the wonderful Dolph Briscoe Center for American History). During this time he kept a secret diary-much of it written in Spanish. ![]() A few years later, while on a diplomatic mission to Mexico City, Austin was arrested on suspicion of plotting Texas independence * and imprisoned for virtually all of 1834. Austin (1793-1836) is considered by many the “Father of Texas” for leading the first Anglo-American colony into the then-Mexican territory back in the 1820s.
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