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?A novel every American should be required to read.? {u2014}Los Angeles Times William Humphrey brings a shameful chapter in US history{u2014}the removal of the Cherokee nation along the Trail of Tears{u2014}to vivid life in his powerful final novel. Twelve-year-old Amos Ferguson is a blond, blue-eyed boy of mixed Cherokee and Scottish heritage, the son of a physician and the grandson of a gentleman farmer. Despite wealth and education, however, the family has no recourse when a drifter forges a bill of sale to their plantation: Georgia state law forbids anyone with Native American blood from testifying in court. Amos and his grandparents are relocated to a squalid internment camp and forced to join their tribe in a long and brutal march to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Along the way, the doctor{u2019}s son tends to the sick as thousands perish from disease, starvation, and exhaustion. In the Republic of Texas, he bears witness to the doomed last stand of Chief Bowles and his band of Cherokee, who refuse to sacrifice the lands promised them by Sam Houston. More than a century later, Amos{u2019}s great-great-grandson narrates the story of his ancestor{u2019}s harrowin

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Author

William Humphrey, William Humphrey

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504006323

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14