Seed Savers Exchange 0036 Open-pollinated Bean, Cherokee Trail of Tears, 50 Seed Packet Given to SSE in 1977 by the late Dr. John Wyche, SSE member from Hugo, Oklahoma Dr. Wyche's Cherokee ancestors carried this bean over the Trail of Tears, the infamous winter death march from the Smoky Mountains to Oklahoma Green 6" pods with purple overlay, shiny jet-black seeds Pole habit, snap or dry, 85 days