Too Many Rivers to Cross

It is 1828 and Mexico Texas is a wild land. Because not many Mexicans areinterested in settling there, the Mexican government is welcoming pioneersfrom the United States.Pa Logging, his wife, and their two sons have failed at farming their twohundred acres and at running their blacksmith business in Fulton, Arkansas.Thanks to the drought, farmers cannot aff ord to hire Pa to shoe their horses orrepair their wagons. Frank Stroud, his wife, and their sons have been trying torun cattle and hogs on three hundred acres, but the drought has left them in fi -nancial ruin. Now as both families leave Arkansas in search of cheap land anda new life in (Perry Point) Anahuac, Texas, they think they will have the samerights they had in the United States. But little do they know that the Mexicangovernment has diff erent ideas.In this engaging historical tale, two Arkansas families trek across dangerousterritories in search of a better life in Mexico Texas during the early nineteenthcentury.