The New Frontier is not place for the faint of heart. By 1845, Don Alejandro de la Torre y Stuart, Baron of Palad n, a self-confessed scoundrel and reputed despoiler of ladies, has accomplished what he set out to achieve when first coming to Tejas in 1835-validate the land grant bequeathed to his family by His Spanish Majesty in 1763. That land grant has become legally Paladin's both through his...