About the Author

A resident of Hallsville, Missouri, Joan Gilbert is the author of two novels and more than six hundred articles, twenty for which she received first-place literary awards.

Reviews

"When . . . no alternative remained to them as a nation but death or removal, they seemed not to hesitate saying `It is death anyhow. We may as well die here.'. . . They cling to the graves of their fathers and say, `Let us die with them . . . if we leave . . . these hills and vales, this mountain air, we shall sicken and die.'"--Sophia Sawyer, missionary and teacher of the Cherokees