Walking the trail

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.

subjects: Cherokee Indians,  Description and travel,  Biography,  Removal,  Southern States,  Trail of Tears, 1838,  Trails of Tears, 1838,  Trail of Tears, 1838-1839,  Indians of north america, biography,  Southern states, description and travel,  Indian trails,  Five civilized tribes,  Indians of north america, land transfers,  Indians of north america, southern states,  Relocation

People: Jerry Ellis

Places: Southern States