Cherokee Rose (A Place to Call Home)

By Lacy, Al & Lacy, JoAnna

Publishers Summary:
The Brutal Road West It's late summer 1838. President Martin Van Buren issues an order that the fifteen thousand Cherokee Indians living in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina are to be evicted from their homeland. Forced to migrate to Indian Territory, the Cherokees begin their tragic, one-thousand-mile journey westward. Most of the seven thousand soldiers escorting them along the way are brutally cruel. But Cherokee Rose, an eighteen-year-old Indian girl, finds one soldier, Lieutenant Britt Claiborne, willing to stand up for them. Both Christians, Cherokee Rose discovers that Britt is also a quarter Cherokee himself. It's upon the Trail of Tears that they fall in love, dreaming of one day marrying and finding a place to call home together.Read MoreRead Less

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ISBN
978-1-59052-562-3
Publisher
Multnomah Fiction


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Library Journal

Reviewed on June 1, 2006

This new Western series from the coauthors ofMail Order Bride ,Orphan Train , and the "Dreams of Gold" series chronicles the 1838 "Trail of Tears" in which 15,000 Cherokee Indians were forced by the U.S. Army to travel from North Carolina to what is now Oklahoma. Some 4000 people died during the six-month trek, which w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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