Publisher's Synopsis
The backdrop of this story is a time and place in American history that for the most part average Americans have little knowledge of. Of course, the local history of an area is better known by the area's residents and history classes in schools emphasize local history. The story takes place at the time of the battle of the Alamo in Texas country that at the time was out west. For the most part, about all Americans know of this time period was the battle of the Alamo, because this was a time before covered wagon trains heading west, cowboys, gold rushes and the wild west as learned from media productions. In this time period, what we now call the Continental United States consisted of only one third of North America being states, another one third claimed by the United States and one third was the country of Mexico. This was a time when Indian tribes in the west were not fighting with the white population because of the plague of settlers coming into the west and occupying Indian land. Some fought the scattered few whites for cultural reasons and conflicts between whites was just what one could expect with two or three people riding through aboriginal lands. The first big push by white Americans into the west was into an area the whites called Texas, then being part of the country of Mexico. This created problems with the Indian tribes and certainly the country of Mexico. This story of two young men starts with a ramification of these events.
