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"Riveting...Engrossing...Mr. Sedgwick's subtitle calls the Cherokee story an 'American Epic,' and indeed it is." —H. W. Brands, The Wall Street JournalAn astonishing untold story from America's past—a sweeping, powerful, and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. The two men's mutual hatred, while little remembered today, shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew Jackson, ever did. Their enmity would lead to war, forced removal from their homeland, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.It begins in the years after America wins its independence, when the Cherokee rule expansive lands of the Southeast that encompass eight...
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- Author
- John Sedgwick
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501128691
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, American Studies, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (176 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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