Walking the trail
Subtitle: one man's journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
By: by Jerry Ellis.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Ellis, Jerry; Cherokee Indians -- Biography; Trails of Tears, 1838; Southern States -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.

Following in their footsteps, Ellis traveled through small southern towns, along winding roads, and amid quiet forests, encountering a memorable array of people who live along the trail today. Along the way he also came to glimpse the pain his ancestors endured and to learn about the true beauty of modern rural life and the worth of a man's character."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1991.