![]() ![]() As an Englishman alone, I was spoilt for choice between the Dollyworld theme park and the World of Magnets emporium. In the summer of 2008 I found myself dirty and exhausted in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, taking a day off whilst re-supplying on a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. Regardless what you call yourself, we are all human and we all have them. But lets me honest those skeletons don't just belong on one side of the fence. The book takes us far beyond the journey itself and begins early on during the colonization of America by the whites, so we are given the big picture of the overall history that led up to the cruel exodus that took the Cherokee's land as well as many of their lives.Īs our nation ages and grows more humble and open, I am appreciative of truth that is revealed, of skeletons that are let out of the closet. Trail of Tears is a well documented story of the relocation of the Cherokee Nation from their ancestral lands in the east, to new lands further west. As is the case most of the time, what I thought I knew based on hear-say and Hollywood romanticizing, is much shallower than the facts of the actual event. ![]() But what it lacked in personality, it delivered in information. ![]() This book was not written in a voice that delivers a dramatic or emotional punch so I felt it lacked a personal touch, a personal touch that would have affected the Cherokee side of me a little deeper. Considering I am part Cherokee, I have been curious about the details of this event for a long time. ![]()
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