I have the hawk is a powerful Epic on the Texas Frontier a marvelously textured suddenly realistic novel of Love and Death in the tide of American history. No Frontier in America's March Westward with bitterly contested or so costly and humanizes texas, the Lone Star republic, Ranch from Mexico and a bloody war that ended in 1836, quickly found much of its territory still claimed by the battle hungry Comanches in their Deli allies the kiowa's. It was a time of turmoil, when Texas found their homes and families under constant siege. It was a time when Outlaws in Bandidos ruined the open planes and run away slaves tried their hand at freedom. It was a time when Brave woman followed their men into danger, and brought forth a hard, new breed of children. And this alien territory comes Seth and Isabel redmond. With brandy, runaway slave they befriend it on their journey, they build a horse ranch they called Thunder run. Seth joins the Texas Rangers to drive back to Menace of the Indian attack, wow he is away on one of his missions a war crazed band of Comanches raids Thunder Run and brutally rapes Isabel and her Mexican maid inez.