's there was little law. People took what they wanted. Lynchings, called Texas Cakewalk, happened. This is a true account of the motives and aftermath of the lynchings. What were the motives of six men to lynch people? Did they get away with it?Texas Cakewalk is about true and infamous lynchings. The story is of eight people from different backgrounds with different ambitions and attitudes. The eight characters clash tragically in 1848 in the Prairie of Wyoming Territory.