Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears -- Bria

"Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/><i>Toward the Setting Sun</i> chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history, recounting the unknown story of the first white man to champion the voiceless Native American cause. <p/>Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, John Ross was educated in white schools. It was not until he was twenty-two, when he fought alongside "his people" against the Creek Indians, a neighboring rebel tribe, that he knew the Cherokees' fate would be his. Cherokee chief for forty years, he would guide the tribe through, its most turbulent period. <p/>As increasing numbers of whites settled illegally on the Cherokee Nation's native land, including Ross's beloved home at Head of Coosa, the chief remained steadfast in his refusal to sign a treaty agreeing to removal. When a group of renegade Cherokees betrayed him and negotiated an agreement with Jackson's men behind Ross's back, he was forced to give way and begin the journey west. <p/>In one of America's great tragedies, thousands of Cherokees died during the tribe's migration on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.<br><br><br><b>Author:</b> Brian Hicks<br><b>Publisher:</b> Grove Press<br><b>Published:</b> 03/27/2012<br><b>Pages:</b> 448<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.86lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.28h x 5.51w x 1.18d<br><b>ISBN: