It began before the Civil War with Joel Trevor, settler. Rugged, resourceful, he was willing to fight Mexicans, carpetbaggers, raiders, even Nature itself to secure his ranch. Then he won the beautiful Spanish Sofia who joined her heart and her lands to his. When control passed to Joel's daughter Anne, she took trouble and tragedy with the same conquering spirit as her father. She took lovers too as she fancied and left them when she chose until she met the Scotsman Alex Cameron with whom she founded a dynasty.
