THE EXPEDITION is the first book in a four-volume series of historical fantasy/fiction that provides a unique and entertaining perspective of American culture as viewed through the kaleidoscopic and unassuming eyes of its main character, Elmo Cotton, a young black sharecropper of questionable identity. Shortly after the Civil War when Elmo Cotton, otherwise known as the "Harlie," becomes part of an ill-fated expedition lead by Mister Homer Skinner, an old man with a tooth ache and a dream who'd stumbled upon the lost gold mine forty years ago at the end of a long dark tunnel, and Colonel Rusty "Red-Beard" Horn, an ex-army officer with a bewildering past and a secret agenda...