Lizzy johnson biography

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Lizzie Johnson, the "Cattle Queen of Texas," was an early and highly successful investor in the Texas cattle business. After the Civil War, she rounded up stray cattle, branded them, and drove them north.

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She was one of the first women to drive cattle up the Chisholm Trail. An innovator in private life as well, Lizzie Johnson kept her business property separate from that of her husband. A worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, she also was a pioneer in prison reform.

She died leaving diamonds hidden in her room and property all over Central Texas.

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Written by Cynthia J. Beeman
Read by Spike Gillespie

Legendary Texas "Cattle Queen" Lizzie Johnson was a woman ahead of her time in many ways.

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Born in Missouri, she arrived in Texas with her parents in the 1840s. They settled in Hays County near Driftwood, where her family operated a school called the Johnson Institute. Lizzie taught school at the institute as well as at sch