Young Seth Davis had heard the talk all across the land of Texas. For near all his young years. Orphan by age nine, sent to live with Aunt and Uncle, made to slave in his uncle’s packinghouse. Young Seth Davis could think of little more than a warm bed and a meal to fill himself, on a cold winter’s night of upper New York State. Where his Uncle raised pork supplying the great harbor of New York City and its many ships, plying their trade from the city great docks, to the ports of Europe and beyond. By age fourteen Seth was put from the his uncles house to be upon his own, a job found for him, again to slave the cold winters in the warehouses of the great harbor. Seth began to make his way south and to warmer climates, meeting Beth the love of his life by his fifteenth summer. Seth came to share Beth’s desires to join the hordes clambering, to this great new land of promise, called Texas.