What happens when a teen's actions result in the murder of his father? This is a story of a young man's effort to overcome his mistakes. It is a story of revenge, tragedy, redemption and family values. But, it is also a story of an adventure a seventeen year old could never dreamed.----- It is mid 1870s near the East Texas town of Jefferson. The Red River, with it's upstream natural log jam, has created a back water bayou that has turned Jefferson into an inland port and connected it to the Mississippi River and all points north and south. Commerce flourishes, and so does crime. ---- Seventeen year old Jay Morgan has left his home to seek fame and fortune. Unfortunately, he has fallen in with the wrong crowd of similarly disillusioned young men. He gets unwittingly involved with two brothers and their illegal activities. They are part of an outlaw gang who's outlaw father says he knows too much and must join them and participate in their planned bank robbery, "or else."---- The Nacogdoches Trail, while being mostly fiction, is based upon a true story and charts the early development of the timber industry in Southeast Texas.