John Ross, Cherokee Chief

by Gary E. Moulton

Overview

In John Ross, Cherokee Chief, Gary Moulton examines the life of the man who led the Cherokee people during the most trying and tragic period of their long history. Ross was the principal Cherokee negotiator with the encroaching whites during the Georgia gold rush, guided the tribe through the treacherous years of the Civil War, and struggled to preserve unity among his people during their removal westward by the United States government, along the “Trail of Tears.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820323671
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	10/01/2004
Series:	Brown Thrasher Books Series
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

GARY E. MOULTON is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and editor of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

GARY E. MOULTON is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and editor of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
1.	Ancestry and Identity	1
2.	Political Apprenticeship	15
3.	The Georgian Thrust	34
4.	Cherokee Impasse	54
5.	The Treaty of New Echota	72
6.	Year of Decision	87
7.	Interregnum	107
8.	Semblance of Unity	127
9.	Travail and Tranquility	149
10.	Civil War	166
11.	Reconstruction	184
12.	In Retrospect	197
	Notes	205
	Bibliography	257
	Index	271

Editorial Reviews

In this thoroughly researched and copiously documented work, Moulton provides a detailed description of the struggle of the Cherokees and Ross, their leader, to convince the United States Government to abide by agreements made earlier in numerous treaties.

Georgia Historical Quarterly

Moulton has produced a thoroughly scholarly, readable, and even-handed biography of a complex and controversial figure in Cherokee and U.S. politics.

American Indian Quarterly

Moulton recounts with care the stormy post-removal days in Indian Territory. Considerable attention is also given to Ross’s efforts to keep his tribe from being drawn into the Civil War, his decision to sign a treaty with the Confederacy, his eventual disavowal of the southern alliance, and his escape behind Union lines.

Western Historical Quarterly

"In this thoroughly researched and copiously documented work, Moulton provides a detailed description of the struggle of the Cherokees and Ross, their leader, to convince the United States Government to abide by agreements made earlier in numerous treaties.”--Georgia Historical Quarterly

"Moulton recounts with care the stormy post-removal days in Indian Territory. Considerable attention is also given to Ross’s efforts to keep his tribe from being drawn into the Civil War, his decision to sign a treaty with the Confederacy, his eventual disavowal of the southern alliance, and his escape behind Union lines."--Western Historical Quarterly

"Moulton has produced a thoroughly scholarly, readable, and even-handed biography of a complex and controversial figure in Cherokee and U.S. politics."--American Indian Quarterly

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