Jacob’s Journey is a tale of ambition, resilience, and the enduring spirit of the American Dream. On his twentieth birthday, eldest son Jacob Hart fulfills his secret ambition of departing his family’s hardscrabble Vermont farm to create a new life on what he hopes are the more fertile lands of the American frontier. The move left him utterly alone, with his childhood home and family forever out of his life. The year is 1832, and America is changing rapidly. In the unbroken wilderness, he carves out a farm and, for the next thirty years, plays a major role in the journey that he and his neighbors are on, as well as the journey that America herself is making in that epochal period of our history. Jacob finds that being at the forefront of history comes at a high cost but also can have great rewards. Ultimately, he finds that when one generation’s role ends, it is just beginning for the next.