THE TRAIL OF TEARS
The story of the American Indian Removals
1813-1855

Gloria Jahoda

$5.95 - Hard Cover w/sleeve - Illustrated

1995 Edition - Random House

ISBN:  0-517-14677-0

Excellent, New Condition.

The bitter tale of the sad events that led inexorably to the final massacre at Wounded Knee began with the Trail of Tears.  In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a bill permitting the removal of all Native Americans living east of the Mississippi.  Over the next twenty years more than fifty tribes were uprooted from their homeland and marched into the alien lands of the west - the first step in the destruction of an entire people.....