The book traces the descent of the William Davis Kincaid family from Stirlingshire, Scotland to County Tyrone, Ireland then to the new world settling first in Pennsylavania before moving into Albemarle county Virginia. From Virginia the family moved through Kentucky residing for a time in Madison county. by the 1840s the family was in the Republic of Texas settling finally on Cibolo creek near Selma in what is today metropolitan San Antonio. After the civil war William Davis Kincaid went up the cattle trails and became a 19th century cattle baron in Brewster, Presidio and Pecos counties Texas. He retired to Uvalde, Texas at the turn of the century owning the present day historic Kincaid ranch southeast of Uvalde in Uvalde and Zavala counties, Texas.