Driven West

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Driven West presents wrenching firsthand accounts of the forced march across the Mississippi along a path of misery and death that the Cherokees called the Trail of Tears.

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Driven West Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears to the Civil War (Book): Langguth, A. J.: Baker & TaylorA narrative history of four turbulent decades of growth in America traces the contributions of Presidents Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren and Polk while covering such topics as the debates over Native American rights, Manifest Destiny expansion, and the events that led up to the Civil In this history of the four decades preceding the Civil War, Langguth (Union The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence,etc.) argues that Andrew Jackson’s handling of the Cherokees sowed the seeds of author organizes the narrative around a series of individual portraits, one per chapter.

Driven West presents wrenching firsthand accounts of the forced march across the Mississippi along a path of misery and death that the Cherokees called the Trail of Tears.

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Book review: ‘Driven West’ By Wendy Smith Dec. 14, The resolution is as inadequate to its terrible subject as is this well-intentioned but undisciplined book. A.J. Langguth recounts President Andrew Jackson's forced removal of Indian tribes that resided in the Southeast during the s.

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