Successful Cattle Women
Anna Mebus Martin and her family immigrated to Texas from _germany_. She accomplished a lot in cattle sales, in business management, and in banking. After her husband’s death, she founded the Commercial Bank, which is still in business in Mason. (Unit 2 Lesson 6 Page 12)
_____________________, school teacher, bought 10 acres of land and began herding cattle that had been roaming freely. She became the first woman to work on the Chisholm Trail, and travel with a number of her hired cowhands on a cattle drive. By the time she died, she owned land in ______counties. Her nickname was the “Cattle Queen of Texas”. (Unit 2 Lesson 6 Page 12)