Author: andrewjoyce

During the second year of the Great Famine, hungry and desperate Devin Mahoney embarks for the United States — sparking an epic journey that will take him and his descendants through more than 100 years of history… A sweeping and well-researched historical read.

Twenty-year-old Jacob Ariesen is uprooted from his home in Concord, Massachusetts in the year 1850. His father is hell-bent on getting to the California gold fields after hearing about the strike at Sutter’s Mill.While on the California-Oregon Trail, his family is killed and he is left for dead.The eighteen-year-old daughter of a Dakota war chief, acting on a Vision that had shown Jacob to be her … her destiny, saves his life and through her, he is adopted into a band of the Mdewakanton Dakota, putting into play events that will lead Jacob, now known as Yellow Hair, to go…