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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the Cherokee people and culture, traces the events that led to their controversial removal from their homeland, debates the necessity of this action, and examines its tragic results.
Author
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An examination of the pervasive effects of the Cherokee nation's forced relocation considers the tribe's inability to acclimate to white culture and explores key roles played by Andrew Jackson, Chief John Ross, and Elias Boudinot.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
466 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
University of Southern California professor of journalism Langguth maintains America's first civil war occurred during the 1830s when Andrew Jackson expelled Indian tribes from the Deep South and created a bitter North-South conflict. Cherokees "were driven out of Georgia at bayonet point by U.S. Army forces led by General Winfield Scott. At the center of the story are the American statesmen of the day -- Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun--...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
1510L
Physical Desc
xv, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members were forcibly removed from the southern Appalachians and resettled in what is now Oklahoma. In this master work, completed just before his death, William McLoughlin not only explains how the Cherokees rebuilt their lives and society, but also recounts their fight to govern themselves as a separate nation...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early 1800s, white Americans sought out more lands. The 1830 Indian Removal Act allowed the US government to trade lands with Native Americans. But officials often forcibly removed Native peoples from their homelands. This book describes this period of forced removal and its lasting effects.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
18) American dreams
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
375 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Previously published as The Proud and The Free
New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey returns to her roots in this richly conceived epic of a passionate family’s fate and fortune in the tumultuous era of America’s wild frontier…
At first glance, Temple Gordon is every inch a Southern belle. Raised on a grand plantation, the outspoken young beauty has known only the comforts of luxury. Yet even
...Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Formats
Description
This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation, Temple is fiercely devoted to Cherokee traditions and her lover, The Blade Stuart, a visionary committed to...
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