by Gary E. Moulton (Author)

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."

Author Biography

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.