Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

The Penguin Library of American Indian History - Book 0

Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

By Theda Perdue, and Michael D. Green
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“With a rich sense of Cherokee culture and history…the authors…recount a human story, not only tragic but also unbelievably heroic.”

Los Angeles Times

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march leads only to their death.