Our Land! Our People!: A Trail of Tears Narrative

by Gary L. Chapman

Overview

Born in 1829 to a mixed Scot and Cherokee family, when the Cherokee Nation had bright hopes for the future, John Francis Bell was a child when those hopes fell apart and the Nation prepared for the forced removal to their western lands. This fictional narrative, based on real people and events, includes the time of preparation, a daily journal of the Bell detachment on the Trail of Tears, and the years of conflict afterward when the Nation needed to work together to rebuild. How would John Francis Bell ever find a life of peace rooted in this land and all of its people?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781523630059
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/27/2016
Series:	Family's Heritage , #3
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Gary Chapman earned a Methodist license to preach when he was sixteen years old, going on to graduate from Illinois Wesleyan University and earning a doctorate of ministry from Chicago Theological Seminary.

After being ordained in the United Church of Christ, Chapman spent the next thirty-five years serving three Midwestern congregations. For twenty-one years, he also taught numerous courses on philosophy, religion, and contemporary issues at Southeastern Community College in Iowa.

Chapman is married with two children and three grandchildren.

He is the author of two other books in a series on A Family's Heritage-Out of My Hands: The Stories of Harold Hunsaker Chapman, and The River Flows Both Ways: Following the Mekong Out of Vietnam and Cambodia.