The War Trail is a Western set in Texas, and the Texans have skirmishes with the Mexicans, but there's also a beautiful maiden who just has to have this unbroken horse. Our protagonist is quite taken with her, so he sets out for adventure.
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 October 22, 1883) was a Scots-Irish American novelist. He fought in the American-Mexican War. His many works are about American life, in which he describes the colonial policy in the United States, the horrors of slave labor, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in places including, but not limited to: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.