In the Lewis family, the only tie that matters is family. These brothers will fight off hunter or farmer or family man to carve out a place in the majestic, untamed territory they can call their own. Anything to live in a land so full of riches that men will die for it . . . . Original.

Ambushed in 1816 Texas for trying to capture wild horses, the sons of murdered veteran and farmer Mordecai Lewis are eventually permitted to resettle in Texas, where one of them falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy French landowner and both are treated as horse thieves by Spanish patrolmen. 30,000 first printing.