In the late 1850’s Dr. Marcel Bon continues his studies of hypnosis. Billy and Thalia Costello and a number of other Sacramento citizens volunteer to be patients in these studies.

Each patient is hypnotized, and while they are in Dreamland, they find themselves with an historical hero or, perhaps they are attending an important historical event taking place in the early days of the young United States.

The patients, while they are hypnotized, are usually invisible; generally being the “fly on the wall” observers. Sometimes, they do participate in activities, much like many of us think that we are doing, when we have a special dream.

All humans dream. Sometimes those dreams seem so real that we just know that we were there! When we waken we realize that we were NOT there! But, we often remember the action in great detail. This continually happens to Dr. Bon’s patients.

In the first chapter (the first session), Irv Bottner finds himself with Capt. John Smith when he is helping to found the first Virginia settlement, Jamestown. Irv is present when John Smith returns to town to report how Pocahontas saved his life.

In the next chapter, John Hansen is present when the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He sees the signing of the Mayflower Compact and is present for the first full year of the settlement during which time half of the original immigrants died.

Ron Draper watches as the great explorer, Henry Hudson, is marooned by his mutinous crew in the northern waters of present-day Canada. He and his young son are left to fend for themselves with probably no chance of survival. The crew sails back to England, but they are not punished because they know so much detail about eastern North America.

Barbara Anderson finds herself in early Manhattan, then named New Amsterdam, as Peter Stuyvesant is ordered to surrender the city to the English. It appears that the Dutch did not set up any defense against an invasion and the British simply took advantage of that fact.

Billy Costello and Maureen Kilian are keen observers of the visit by William Penn to the new city of Philadelphia. Penn is welcomed to the colony that he founded, the only colony that is governed by liberal laws, including an all-citizen representation in governing, property ownership, and freedom of religion.

Rich Holland finds himself alongside Daniel Boone as the famous pioneer woodsman goes from the East to blaze the path that will be called the Wilderness Road into Kentucky. After the Road is completed and towns are being settled there is constant concern about Indian attacks. At one time, in a lightning-swift action, Daniel outsmarts the Indians who have kidnapped three girls from the village; they are returned safely to their families, thanks to Boone’s ability as a frontiersman.

Don Bailey is emcee at a meeting where Benjamin Franklin, late in life, offers his wise suggestions of dealing with life and the problems arising thereof. Rob Merritt, Ken Goldenberg, and Paul Ortiz also participate. Franklin wows the audience with short, snappy, thoughtful adages and sayings that hit the center of the target and that provide guidance for young and old.

Jerry Fortner helps to row the boat across the Hudson River to carry Alexander Hamilton to his duel with Aaron Burr. He also helps to return with the mortally wounded Hamilton. This duel, involving the Vice-President and the recent Secretary of the Treasury of the newly-formed United States, is roundly condemned by the general public, which is especially resentful of Burr’s ungentlemanly actions during the affair.

Near the end of the book we find Svea Larson accompanying the Lewis and Clark expedition from their winter quarters into the Bitterroot Mountains where Sacajawea proves to be of great assistance to the progress of that expedition. The Indian maid comes across her long-lost brother who she finds is the chief of the tribe that will assist the expedition to move onward.

The last chapter finds Irv Abel accompanying the Lewis and Clark expedition as they finally reach their destination – the Pacific Ocean. When the ocean is in sight, there is great jubilation and happiness after a two-year trek over thousands of difficult miles.

(Note: While this book is listed as a work of historical fiction, most of the data such as places (towns and countries), times (dates), and participants (names of real people) are true-to-life, mostly due to extensive research by the author.)