Trail of Tears
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Publisher: Anchor
Published: September 22, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780385239547
First sentence: Investigations were made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to determine whether the American Indians were the lost tribes of Judah; and it was pretty well proved both yes and no, and unprovable either way, which made it an excellent topic for study and exploitation, one populated by warm bodies and tearstained faces and beautiful, waiting children.