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Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Walking the Trail One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Author: Jerry Ellis
One fall morning Jerry Ellis donned a backpack and began a long, lonely walk: retracing the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the nine hundred miles his ancestors had walked in 1838. The trail was the agonizing path of exile the Cherokees had been forced to take when they were torn from their southeastern homeland and relocated to Indian Territory. — Foll...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385304481
ISBN-10: 038530448X
Publication Date: 9/1/1991
Pages: 256
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3.7 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Writer and Native American Jerry Ellis sets out to walk the Cherokee "Trail of Tears", moving from its terminus in Oklahoma back to its beginning in northwest Georgia, while contemplating his own life and the history of his tribe. It's a bit short on history, but full of interesting characters he finds along the way.
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A great 'feel good' book.
I really enjoyed the narrator of this one. A true story.


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