John Ehle – Cannonball Read 17

Trail of Tears

Trail of Tears by John Ehle

March 25, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This narrative history of the Cherokee Nation was first published in 1988 by John Ehle, known both as a historian of this bent and as a novelist of the early Americas. I’ve previous read his novel The Land Breakers, which takes place in the North Carolina west country in the 1700s. This history begins in the late 18th century as well by establishing the relationship between the Cherokee Nation and the, first, colonial Georgia government and the state government of Georgia and the national government […]

The Land Breakers – John Ehle (1964)

The Land Breakers by John Ehle

April 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A novel that spends several years following Scots-Irish immigrants moving to the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia the late 1770s and early 1780s. This novel follows the would-be “land breakers” whose job it is to not only survive off the land, but also to transform it. For those who live in or around the Appalachian mountains this land is pretty familiar in general. The mountains themselves tend to be wooded, with rocky ridgelines and peaks, some gaps and passes, but sometimes those don’t appear […]

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