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In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian promotions and battles contrary to the British, goes his family in to the american Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a created wanderer, is unhappy with farming, and along with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Tx to hunt crazy horses and bring the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's get together encounters a Spanish patrol established to repel all American invaders. After having a bloody skirmish leaves their dad useless, Michael and Andrew find their way back with their Tennessee farm. Five years later, after the Spanish authorities in Mexico City has decided to enable 300 American families to stay in Tx, the Lewis brothers contain the chance to re-enter Tx. They ride to the frontier town of Natchitoches, Louisiana, where Michael falls deeply in love with Marie Villaret, daughter of a rich French landowner, then mix the Sabine to find Stephen F. Austin, a Missouri businessman in charge of the new American colony. However the Lewises are believed interlopers and horses thieves and are dogged by a patrol led by the same ruthless Spanish offer who killed their dad five years before. Sons of Tx is the first quantity in a trilogy that follows the lives and activities of the Lewis family through the era of the Alamo and Tx Self-reliance under Sam Houston.