Trail of Tears: The Story of John Ross 

Paperback – ebook

March 6, 2021

by Anne Greene  (Author

Publisher : Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. 

Paperback : 350 pages

ISBN-13 : 978-1649491497

One man fights overwhelming odds to survive and protect. Caught between the love of two beautiful women, which one will he choose?

What if you are a twenty-year-old, about to attend college, and your whole world collapses? Your mother and sister are missing, and soldiers murder your father, burn your mansion, and take you prisoner.

Trail of Tears relives one of the most heartrending chapters in American history as the US Government transports the self-governing, wealthy Cherokee nation from their ancestral homeland to relocate in hostile Indian Territory.

The Georgia militia forces John Ross, with only a trickle of Indian blood flowing in his veins, to walk the thousand-mile Trail of Tears.

After John protects a full-blood Indian girl from the lustful wagon master, the cruel soldier targets John for retribution—until John’s shoved too far.

Bitter animosity explodes from a jealous Army Captain as John pushes and pulls his Conestoga wagon over mountain roads made muddy by rain and slippery by snow.
Yet the persuasive voices of the preacher and his daughter have an impact.
A new destiny awaits John at the end of the trail—if he survives. Four thousand Cherokee do not.

Marilyn’s thoughts: Trail of Tears: The Story of John Ross in the first book in The Ross Family Saga by Anne Greene. This is one riveting story that will rip at your heartstrings with tears flowing. This is based on American history where the Cherokee nation is forced by the government to leave their homeland. The brutality, lack of supplies, loss, complete disrespect for the Cherokees was evident with their treatment. Thankfully there was a caring white missionary and a few others that did all they could to help the Cherokee people including sharing the scriptural salvation plan for them to find inner peace despite their hardships and losses. The story is filled with action, faith, romance and forgiveness among many. The survivors grew in faith and one of John Ross’s special verses was from Isaiah 40:31 along with the verses from the Psalms. I look forward to reading the next installment for The Ross Family Sage.

 

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author without any obligation to write a review. I have expressed my own thoughts.