So there were basically three zones into which people divided Texas. You came in from the coast if you could afford to buy-via New Orleans and Galveston, and you came into coast-the coastal zone, which very quickly became a febrile zone-this is where mal-10:18 - 2175malaria resided. And people found then that these places like Indianola and Brazosport and-and Galveston were not places to stay and to terry. In fact, people were instructed very quickly to get out of that malaria febrile zone into what they call the rolling prairies. Now the rolling prairies started from the Sabine, went to Nacogdoches, it was really the piney woods and then gradually on the Canary Isles you went west towards Austin and San Antonio which was the-the great metropolis then. The-the piney woods, the-the overarching darkness of conifer and oak extended to give way to clearing and then to prairies. And when you get to places like Austin and Bastrop, these became very, very desirable because they were full of-of color in the spring, walking birds, voices as well, they had this wonderful combination of oak and land and wood. So you could actually set down there and think you were in some kind of, in a sense, a-a-a European if not Mediterranean landscape. And people really honed in on this and found this very attractive in deed. 11:37 - 2175In fact Austin's colony is planted as you can see between the Brazos and Colorado watersheds. You know, he-he knew what he was doing I think in terms of picking potentially good-good land to-to site settlements in. That was a second zone then, that rolling prairies. The third zone began essentially at the Colorado River here in Austin and went westwards into God knows where. It was always a transition zone to someplace else-California, New Mexico, Santa Fe, call it what you will-where the end of Texas-where Texas ended and some other part of the world you might have dropped off, began; you didn't know. So really West Texas was a place you avoided or you put forts there and went there in large groups in order to get through an area that had, uh, difficult people and also difficult plants and animals to deal with. The-this is a-West 12:18 - 2175Texas was seen as the land of extremes and I think until the Civil War this third zone, mountain zone, or West Texas it was called, was-was not a place where people went very easily or willingly except then as ranchers and cattle raisers rather than as farmers and growers of cotton and corn. DT: Maybe you could follow up on that by talking about how people's attitudes, the settlers who actually arrived here changed and it seems like now we view Texas as a pretty settled, in some cases, at least in a natural sense, a fragile place that needs to be cared for and preserved. I guess at that time it was maybe more of a threatening place and it had various obstacles to being settled and, as you say, being put in order. Can you describe a little bit of that-what a typical settler might have faced? 13:13 - 2175