The Stapleton family has been moving west for six generations. In 1838, they finally stop.
The Promised Land is the concluding volume of the Stapleton trilogy - a family saga that began when Dr. Thomas William Stapleton crossed from England to Virginia in 1676 and set a dynasty in motion. Through the Carolinas, into Alabama, deeper into Florida, and now across the Gulf of Mexico to the black soil of the Colorado River valley.
But first, Texas has to survive.
When the cannon smoke clears at the Alamo in March 1836, William Stapleton Senior is already moving - pulling his family through the chaos of the Texas Revolution, along the banks of the San Jacinto, and away from a Florida they can no longer call home. What follows is not a heroic march. It is something quieter and harder: the slow, unglamorous work of turning raw land into a life.
By 1874, the Stapletons have built something that will last.
The Promised Land tells the story of what it cost them.
Drawing on primary documents, land records, and family history stretching back to colonial Virginia, Clayton R Stapleton reconstructs a world that history wrote around but rarely wrote down - the frontier children, the silent census entries, the names that almost didn't survive. This is their story, told in full.
Stapleton: The Sons of '24 - Book Three Completing the trilogy that began with The Long Way to Florida and From Gum Swamp to Texas Wilderness.
