Indian Removal Paperback

Originally published in 1932 on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Oklahoma of the first Indians as a result of the United States government's relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Removal remains today the definitive book in its field. 

The forcible uprooting and expulsion of the 60,000 Indians constituting the Five Civilized Tribes, including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole, unfolded a story without parallel in the history of the United States.  Fore more than a decade, thousands of tragedies and experiences of absorbing interest marked the removal over the "Trail of Tears," but there were no chroniclers at hand to record them.  Only occasionally did the tragedy and pathos of this historic undertaking move a sympathetic  officer to turn from routine and write a line or paragraph of comment.

From fragments in thousands of manuscripts and in official and unofficial reports, Grant Foreman gleaned the materials for this book to provide readers with an unbiased day-by-day recital of events.