In The Beginning... Mists rise from the shallow stream, lending mystique to the East Texas countryside. The future city of Big Sandy, Texas begins inauspiciously with a lone white traveler slipping from the shadows of dense woodland and splashing across, his horse on a lead following close behind. But this intrepid wanderer wasn't the first to tread these piney woods and sandy bottoms. Tracks on the Sand takes the reader on an adventurous journey from the inauspicious beginnings of this small East Texas town, through its one hundred and twenty five years of history right up to the advent of the twenty-first century.