It is the mid s and a growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution In the midst of the turmoil are the Lewis brothers - Andrew Michael and James - scions of Mordecai Lewis who crossed the Sabine River into Texas a decade pastNow the news along the Texas frontier is of a young general a self-styled Napoleon of the West named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna who wants to stamp out any gringo talk of independence from Mexico and oust the American interlopers from TexasStanding in opposition to Santa Anna is the former governor of Tennessee and veteran of Andrew Jacksons Indian battles Sam Houston who is gathering a volunteer army to meet the Mexican forcesAgainst the heroic bloody backdrop of the Texas War of Independence--the battles of Gonzalez San Antonio de Bexar Goliad the Alamo and San Jacinto--the Lewis men and their families join such rebels as Jim Bowie James Fannin Ben Milam Juan Seguin James Butler Bonham William Barret Travis and David Crockett in wresting Texas from Mexican rule.
