Walking the Trail
Kindle edition
AuthorJerry Ellis
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
PublisherDelacorte Press
Publication date
1991
Media typePrint (hardcover)
ISBN9780803267435

Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears is the 1991 book by Jerry Ellis telling the story of his 900-mile walk along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the same walk his ancestors were forced to take in 1838. Walking the Trail has been used in classrooms and as a teaching resource by award-winning educators, including James Percoco[1] who is in the National Teachers Hall of Fame.

Reception

The work was well received, with the Los Angeles Times stating that "Jerry Ellis is an ideal companion for a long ramble along the back roads of America, which is precisely what he provides in Walking the Trail, a picaresque account of his trek over the Trail of Tears in commemoration of his Cherokee ancestors and in search of some elusive ideal of freedom and fulfillment."[2]

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