The Trees of Joe takes the reader through a rich and engrossing experience that begins when a Spanish ship is wrecked on an unnamed shore.

Agustin Francisco Lopez Ruiz Plata de Alvarado survives starvation and slavery to ultimately found what will become Joe.

Other lives connect through immigration, the Dust Bowl, marriages, and rural economic depression.

The people of this epic story make individual choices that will determine the collaborative future of the town of Joe.