Download Now Server 1 Download Now Server 2 Download Now Server 3 Empresario Stephen F. 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. 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. During this time he kept a secret diary of his thoughts and musingsmuch of it written in Spanish. More Austin Pen is my interpretation of Austins scribblings in this miniature prison journal (now in the collection of the wonderful Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, in the Texas city that bears his name). The little leather-bound book is filled with notes in ink and pencilsome of the faded penciled pages traced in ink years later by Austins nephew Moses Bryan. A genuine replication of 19th century cursive, Austin...