There are many family sagas written. This is one that will affect you in many ways: happiness, sorrow, hurt, elation, compassion and the adjectives never stop. This rewarding story includes, family tradition, love, pain, kidnapping, suicide, murder and reaches across more than one culture. Get comfortable and enjoy a fine story that includes just a hint of altruism. An eight year old boy watches his father get shot by bandits in 1860. He's left an orphan to be reared by an aunt. He parlays some gold that was being transported, stashed in a saddle bag, into a multi-million dollar empire.