Why the pine tree?

This flag was used by George Washington during the first years of the founding of the American Republic as a free country. An early American Revolutionary group called the Sons of Liberty would rally under a large tree in Boston Massachusetts, which came to be known as “The Liberty Tree.”  This tree became a symbol of American independence: familiar on the seas as the ensign of the cruisers commissioned by General Washington and flying over the American troops during the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775.  Knowing they were up against an earthly power most would consider unbeatable, they put their trust in a higher power, thus their “Appeal to Heaven.”  Jim and Scott, when considering what to use as the symbol for their law firm in the beautiful pine-covered Black Hills of South Dakota, thought of this, one of the first flags to be flown by free men calling themselves Americans.  It is in that spirit that they started and operate the law firm of Seward and Odenbach, and live their lives.