El Tigre: The Life and Times of El Tigre Viejo

Johann Heinrich von Manfred is a young Prussian who became a Texan, a Californian and an American. A fast moving story, it chronicles the life of Johann Heinrich von Manfred from his youth as a student in a Prussian military academy through his many exciting and dangerous adventures from Spain to the Americas, from Florida to Texas, and finally, the gold-laden frontier of California.