Outnumbered and outgunned, General Sam Houston's dream of a Texas Republic was being shattered by a relentless Mexican army. Houston could still succeed--if Captain Jackson Baines "Ole Devil" Hardin made it to the battlefield with his vital shipment of caplock rifles. But at the banks of the Brazos River, one of Santa Anna's fiercest regiments sprang a cunning attack. Trapped between a raging river and a superior enemy force, the Ole Devil prepared to fight his way to freedom--or die with his gun smoking in his hand.