Trail of Tears - Softcover

The heartrending story of the Cherokee Nation and one woman who fought to save it from destruction... The child of two worlds , she would inspire and sustain her people on a forced journey into exile... Though educated in a white man's world, Laurel MacDonald, daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, found fulfillment teaching at the mission school in New Echota, the capital of the Cherokee Nation in Georgia. But her happiness was short lived. The beautiful wilderness nation was now a battleground. The Georgia Militia's government-sponsored campaign to remove the Cherokee people from their land pitted friend against friend, brother against brother, white man against Indian. Imprisoned while awaiting their forced migration out west, families were separated. Disease and despair took their toll. Bravely, Laurel and her people faced the devastating hardship that lay ahead on "the trail that cried." Her heart torn between two men, Edward Faraday, and the other, a young Cherokee chieftain, Night Hawk, Laurel left behind more than memories.The history of the Cherokee Nation, its capital, and her teaching had been woven into the very fabric of her life. But as official interpreter of the Cherokee detachment, she would fulfill her heritage as a Cherokee woman by helping to forge a new nation...

Frances Patton Statham (Stay/tum) of metro-Atlanta, has received numerous awards in writing, music composition, art, lectures, and community service. She graduated magna cum laude from Winthrop University with a double major in voice performance and music education. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Georgia, with further opera study. Listed in such reference books as World Who's Who of Women, the Dictionary of International Biography, International Who's Who of Intellectuals, International Who's Who of Authors and Writers, and Personalities of the South, she is at work on her 17th novel. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Frances/Statham http://francespattonstatham.com/