More like one of the first entrepreneurs with a vivid imagination. Jane Long was the wife of an early "filibuster," meaning an American who tried to organize the overthrow of the government of Mexico.
James Long disappeared on this very day in 1821 and she gave birth to a daughter a few months later. Years after, she would claim to "the mother of Texas," because of the birth, though historians say other pregnant Anglos preceded her in the feat.
In her old age, she claimed to have been courted by such luminaries as Houston, Lamar and Milam.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 