America’s Trail of Tears: A Story of Love and Betrayal

Documented history with extended bibliography and footnotes, but reads like a novel. Captures dramatic events leading up to Trail of Tears and immediately after–including assassinations of key leaders, arrests of missionaries, and riots stemming from mixed-race marriages. The Cherokee saga–about a people who became “civilized” by adopting commerce, trade, literacy and Christianity of the whites–served as the seminal case for how the United States related to all Native Americans thereafter.