Tracing lives, loves, and aspirations of English Gypsies arriving in mid-nineteenth century America, CARAVAN OF DREAMS is a rare insider's view of a mysterious culture, a love story, an uneasy truce with wealth garnered from the Civil War, a mother's excruciating bereavement, and the emotional cost of loss and injury.Searching for freedom to roam, Victoria's English Gypsy family comes to America and establishes themselves as horse traders. Traveling...