Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas
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William Holland Thomas (1805-1893) was a unique transcultural figure. A white man from western North Carolina, he was adopted by a small Cherokee Indian band and later became its chief. Equally at home in a drawing room or at a Green Corn Dance, Thomas served as agent for the Oconaluftee Indians in Washington, protecting them from removal to the West in 1838 along the infamous Trail of Tears. Thomas was also a frontier merchant, a builder of railroads...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1572331615
ISBN13:9781572331617
Release Date:March 2002
Publisher:Univ Tennessee Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"
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