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In 1838, 13,000 Cherokee were forced from their land to walk 900 miles along the "Trail of Tears" to present-day Oklahoma. This "illuminating and challenging chronicle of loss, despair, and regeneration" ("Washington Post Book World") brings this ordeal to life via the haunting voices of a young Cherokee woman, her husband, and a host of others--Cherokee and white, soldier and missionary, parent and child, the living and the dead. 252 pp. Author appearances.
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Pushing the Bear, Diane Glancy
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- Pushing the Bear
- Subtitle
- A Novel of the Trail of Tears
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Diane Glancy
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 241
- ISBN10
- 0151002258
- ISBN13
- 9780151002252
- Series
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- In 1838, 13,000 Cherokee were forced from their land to walk 900 miles along the "Trail of Tears" to present-day Oklahoma. This "illuminating and challenging chronicle of loss, despair, and regeneration" ("Washington Post Book World") brings this ordeal to life via the haunting voices of a young Cherokee woman, her husband, and a host of others--Cherokee and white, soldier and missionary, parent and child, the living and the dead. 252 pp. Author appearances.