Thirteen detachments crossed the Mississippi River into Missouri during the Trail of Tears as they made their way through ...

John Benge detachment of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Benge, a Cherokee court judge ... associate history professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Pierce heads the Nelson Hackett ...

The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail also passes through parts of North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, ...