The Americanos

The scene is set in 1830 in the Territory of Texas before it became a state fifteen years later. A rough hewn, self determined, middle aged man, Baron King and his wife Ophelia, come by wagon to that lonely part of the territory not far above the Rio Grand river and the border with Mexico. Here they put down roots, begin the foundations of a ranch that will someday become one of the largest and most famous cattle spreads in the entire southwest, and fight for every inch of ground they claim battling both whites, Mexicans, and Indians as they slowly build their herd from a few mangy longhorns, to dozens, then hundreds, and finally thousands of cattle two decades later.

When Ophelia dies in childbirth and the bitter Baron King must raise his sons alone, the stage is set for a great western novel, with strange twists that turn blood against blood, Mexican against American, and brother against brother.