Description: After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880
Brief description: The late William G. McLoughlin was professor emeritus of history and religion at Brown University. He was author of numerous books, including Cherokee Renascence, 1794-1833.
Review Quotes: "McLoughlin provides considerable detail about Cherokee efforts to form a stable representative government and recounts the conflict and changing relations among Old Settlers, the Treaty Party, and the majority of Cherokee conservatives, or the national party. . . . [T]his volume is [McLoughlin's] crowning achievement."--American Historical Review