The Trail of Tears
- ISBN-10
- 0030148715
- ISBN-13
- 9780030148712
- Series
- The Trail of Tears
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Author
- Gloria Jahoda
Description
An angry narrative of the forcible uprooting and often brutal removal of more than fifty Indian tribes and groups originally located east of the Mississippi and their forced resettlement in the alien West
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