John Coffey Hays is just nineteen when he arrives in the town of Nacogdoches Republic of Texas in 1836.
Although Jack is too late to enlist in the fight for Texas Independence, he soon joins the ranging company of Deaf Smith and begins a thirteen-year history of defending.
Despite his young age, Jack is a man who commands perhaps just as much fear as respect.
Moments later when a man is killed, none of the witnesses dispute that Jack acted in self-defense.
John Coffey Hays is just nineteen when he arrives in the town of Nacogdoches Republic of Texas in 1836