The Cherokee Nation

First Edition, First Printing (1946). Book one of Starkey's famous Native American Series, which tells the bitter tale of the Trail of Tears when at the beginning of the 1830s, the nearly 125,000 Native Americans who lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations--were, in support of white settlers, forced by US Government to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. A deadly, harrowing journey known as the Trail of Tears.

Near fine in brown cloth, embossed and spine gilt, very slight dulling to front cover. Pictorial dustjacket. Very scarce thus. Some dj wear and chipping at and near spine head and tail. Interior fine, unmarred with prior owner's name on front free endpaper. A lovely copy; very hard to find.