Searching for a better life, Mina, Papa, and Mama left their German fatherland aboard the brig Margaretha , bound for Texas. They had been told it was the paradise of North America, but when Mina steps onto the desolate beach at Indian Point on a cold December day in 1845, she wants to go back to Germany and Opa's cozy Beautiful Feet Books resource: https://www.bfbooks.com/products/a-paradise-called-texas