The year is 1820, and Steven Randall has had enough of Tennessee and its swindling bankers. He has himself a humdinger of an auction and sells his spread ... along with a single prize thoroughbred from his stable of a dozen. Coming out of the deal a very rich man, he puts together a wagon train and heads West for his Mexican claim in a wild, unknown land called Tejas. He takes nineteen other families with him, but only eleven of those twenty families will ever see the promised land. Along the way, they encounter more troubles than they can count. Rustlers, murderers, fever, and nature turned mean as a snake against them. It'll take all the courage and determination they have in them to make it to their new land, but even those who survived the dying ain't quite done yet. 387 pages. Young Adult and up. Sexual and racial situations.