A German geologist, Ferdinand Roemer, visited the Hill Country from early 1846 until the spring of 1847. He chronicled his observations in detail in a book, later translated into English by Oswald Mueller, called “Roemer’s Texas”. Roemer was actually employed to study the area by a German company interested in developing some German settlements in the Hill Country. Roemer described in detail the difficulty in traveling in Texas back then, which was just after Texas became a state.