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No resting place

"A novel every American should be required to read."--Los Angeles Times William Humphrey brings a shameful chapter in US history-the removal of the Cherokee nation along the Trail of Tears-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 cou.

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  • ""A novel every American should be required to read."--Los Angeles Times William Humphrey brings a shameful chapter in US history-the removal of the Cherokee nation along the Trail of Tears-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 cou."@en
  • "Recreates the circumstances that befell a young Cherokee doctor on the "Trail of Tears" march to a Georgia internment camp."@en
  • "A fictionalized tale recounts the forced removal of the Cherokee nation from Georgia, to Tennessee, to Texas along the Trail of Tears and the devastation of that exodus to Native Americans. The Cherokee Indians of the State of Georgia, including those who have been Christian for generations, are forced to move west along the Trail of Tears. Nothing - not the white man's god nor the Chief justice of the Supreme Court - can change their fate."
  • "A fictionalized tale recounts the forced removal of the Cherokee nation from Georgia, to Tennessee, to Texas along the Trail of Tears and the devastation of that exodus to Native Americans. The Cherokee Indians of the State of Georgia, including those who have been Christian for generations, are forced to move west along the Trail of Tears. Nothing - not the white man's god nor the Chief justice of the Supreme Court - can change their fate."@en

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  • "Galley proofs"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
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  • "No resting place"
  • "No resting place"@en
  • "No resting place : [a novel]"
  • "La Piste des larmes : roman"
  • "No Resting Place a Novel"@en

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