RECORDS OF THE MORAVIANS AMONG THE CHEROKEES: VOLUME 9, 1830-1833, MARCH TO REMOVAL, PART 4, “THEY SHALL NOT BE FORSAKEN”
Edited by Richard W. Starbuck, Cherokee Heritage Press, 2019, publisher
This is the newest Volume in the series, published October, 2019. Volume 9, begins in the time of August, 1830, as Georgia orders all white men in the Cherokee Nation to take an oath of allegiance to the state’s laws or leave the country. “This leads to a year of upheaval, as Georgia Guards sweep the land of white laborers, artisans and especially as Br. Gottlieb Byhan reports, the “Yankee Missionaries” of the American Board in Boston“. This led to the jailing of missionary, Samuel Worcester. The Moravian mission station, Oochgeelogy, near New Echota is lost to “renters”. On New Year’s Day,1833,the Moravian mission of Springplace, is overrun by whites who have “won” it through Georgia’s land lottery in the Cherokee Nation. With this loss, the Moravian’s are forced to move to Tennessee. This book series uses original diaries, minutes, reports, correspondence in Moravian Archives in N.C. to provide a first-hand account of daily life among the Cherokees through the nineteenth century. $40
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WRECKED LIVES AND LOST SOULS, JOE LYNCH DAVIS AND THE LAST OF THE OKLAHOMA OUTLAWS
By Jerry Thompson. Published October 2019, the author has done extensive research about his grandfather, Joe Lynch Davis, who was a Cherokee cowboy, a resident of Indian Territory /Oklahoma in the early 1900’s. The book “uncovers the lawless life and times of a man at the center of systematic cattle rustling, feuding, gun battles, a bloody range war, bank robberies and train heists“. Davis was born in 1891 and grew up on the family ranch near the community of Porum. Thus, his involvement in the decade-long Porum Range War. A fascinating chapter in the history of early Oklahoma.. Jerry Thompson is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University. 328 pages,including index, and 22 illustrations,1 chart, 5 maps. Paperback. $24.95
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