The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...

The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...

Three stops along the Georgia section of the Trail of Tears, a National Park Service ... which includes sites outside of the physical path the Cherokees took to Oklahoma, is Chief Vann’s home ...

Bouse grew up in Steelville, but she learned much later that Missouri had the most Cherokee Trail of Tears miles of any state and that her hometown in Crawford County was on its path.