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CHEROKEE CAVALIERSCHEROKEE CAVALIERS. Forty Years of Cherokee History as told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot col. By Edward Everett Dale, Gaston Litton. Paperback, (1939), 1995, Illus., Map, 352 pp.
Here, arranged in sequence with annotation and chapter introductions by Edward Everett Dale and Gaston Litton, are the lives and thoughts of such proud cavaliers of Cherokee blood as John Rollin Ridge, who followed the Gold Rush to California; Stand Watie, Confederate general in the Civil War; and E.C. Boudinot, the Cherokee delegate to the Confederate Congress.
'In calling Cherokee Cavaliers a valuable book, the reviewer is not thinking only of its documentary value for scholars, but of its vivid and surprising interest for the intelligent public at large. This is a book to read.'-New York Times Book Review CH-106 |