Question: What Texas land speculator was the first female war correspondent in American history?
Answer: Jane Cazneau. Born in New York in 1807, she first arrived in Texas in 1832. As a journalist for the New York Sun, she advocated for the annexation of Texas, and she journeyed to Mexico City with editor Moses Yale Beech during the war on a secret peace mission authorized by President Polk. While in Mexico, she reported on the conflict under the pseudonym Cora Montgomery. After the war, she lived in Eagle Pass for several years and wrote a book about life on the border.
