Trail of Tears (Paperback)

The heartrending story of the Cherokee Nation and one woman who fought to save it from destruction... The child of two worlds, she would inspire and sustain her people on a forced journey into exile... Though educated in a white man's world, Laurel MacDonald, daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, found fulfillment teaching at the mission school in New Echota, the capital of the Cherokee Nation in Georgia. But her happiness was short lived. The beautiful wilderness nation was now a battleground. The Georgia Militia's government-sponsored campaign to remove the Cherokee people from their land pitted friend against friend, brother against brother, white man against Indian. Imprisoned while awaiting their forced migration out west, families were separated. Disease and despair took their toll. Bravely, Laurel and her people faced the devastating hardship that lay ahead on "the trail that cried." Her heart torn between two men, Edward Faraday, and the other, a young Cherokee chieftain, Night Hawk, Laurel left behind more than memories.The history of the Cherokee Nation, its capital, and her teaching had been woven into the very fabric of her life. But as official interpreter of the Cherokee detachment, she would fulfill her heritage as a Cherokee woman by helping to forge a new nation...

General

Imprint:	Bocage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	October 2013
Illustrators:	Steve McAfee
Authors:	Frances Patton Statham
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-0-9895007-1-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-9895007-1-3
Barcode:	9780989500715

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