Dean Arnold

America's Trail of Tears: a Story of Love and Betrayal Dean Arnold

Documented history with extended bibliography and footnotes, but reads like a novel. Captures dramatic events leading up to Trail of Tears and immediately after--including assassinations of key leaders, arrests of missionaries, and riots stemming from mixed-race marriages. The Cherokee saga--about a people who became "civilized" by adopting commerce, trade, literacy and Christianity of the whites--served as the seminal case for how the United States related to all Native Americans thereafter.