For the first time in poetic form, The Cherokee Lottery treats one of the greatest tragedies in American history, the forced removal of the Southern Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in northern Georgia in 1828, the U.S. Government passed the Removal Act, and 18,000 Cherokees, along with other southern tribes--Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Creeks--were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma territory. Herded along under armed guard, they traveled in bitter cold weather and as many as a ...
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For the first time in poetic form, The Cherokee Lottery treats one of the greatest tragedies in American history, the forced removal of the Southern Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in northern Georgia in 1828, the U.S. Government passed the Removal Act, and 18,000 Cherokees, along with other southern tribes--Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Creeks--were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma territory. Herded along under armed guard, they traveled in bitter cold weather and as many as a quarter died on what became known as "The Trail of Tears."In powerful poetry of epic proportions, which Harold Bloom has called his best work, Smith paints a stark and vivid picture of this ordeal and its principal participants, among them Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, and Osceola, the Seminole chief.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Very Good. Inscribed by the poet to author Hilary Masters on the title page. 2000. Paperback. 97 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Very good. Mild soiling to rear wrap. Fain stain to text-block and one page. Contents otherwise clean.
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Fine. First edition, paperback original. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine copy. Review copy, with publisher's letter laid in. A sequence of poems about "The Trail of Tears"
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Fine. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated in black and white. Pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing, else fine. Publisher's letters laid in. A sequence of poems about "The Trail of Tears"
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Near Fine. First edition, paperback original. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light foxing on page edges, else fine. Inscribed by the author to fellow poets Daniel and Elizabeth Hoffman on the title page. A sequence of poems about "The Trail of Tears"
