Step into the colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.

A love story, an adventure, an epic of honor and ambition set in the time of wars and domestic troubles. For 150 years the King Ranch has grown and prospered. Here's a tale of action and romance to satisfy the most demanding reader. And it's all TRUE.