From Salacoa To Tahlequah

A story of the progress of four generations of Cherokees who endured the hardships of the removal, the Civil War, reconstruction years, and finally, the depression of 1929 and problems of the early 1930s in Oklahoma to receive the rich rewards of a treasure that had been kept secret for over a hundred years. An historical fiction based on a true story which had its beginnings in Georgias Salacoa Valley with the construction of the John Martin, Jr., house in the 1820s subsequently purchased in 1838 by the Erwin family and preserved until the date of this book. A story which depicts the rich heritage of families of the Cherokee Nation as they moved to their new home at Tahlequah and grew from a primitive society to a civilized and cultured nation in the state of Oklahoma.

A non-fiction account of the real reasons why the American Revolution started over one hundred years before 1776. While many historians believe that the British Proclamation and the Quartering Act of 1763, the Sugar Act of 1764, and the Stamp Act of 1765 enacted by the British led to colonial resistance to Bristish rule with the Boston Tea party of 1773 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the author presents material to show that the desire for independence by Americans began as early as 1676 with Bacon's Rebellion and possibly before that when the Virginia government was organized in 1679.

A story of the progress of four generations of Cherokees who endured the hardships of the removal, the Civil War, reconstruction years, and finally, the depression of 1929 and problems of the early 1930s in Oklahoma to receive the rich rewards of a treasure that had been kept secret for over a hundred years. An historical fiction based on a true story which had it's beginnings in Georgia's Salacoa Valley with the construction of the John Martin, Jr., house in the 1820s subsequently purchased in 1838 by the Erwin family and preserved until the date of this book. A story which depicts the rich heritage of families of the Cherokee Nation as they moved to their new home at Tahlequah and grew from a primitive society to a civilized and cultured nation in the state of Oklahoma.

A non-fiction biography about Ludovic Grant, Gent., born near Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1688. As a Jacobite warrior in 1715, he was captured along with 1,500 other Scotch Highlanders at Preston, England, and imprisoned at Chester Castle for six months. His trial resulted in banishment to Charles Town, SC, in 1716. After serving as an indentured servant for seven years, he became a licensed trader with the Cherokee Indians in Tennessee and married a full-blood Cherokee woman. His letters to Gov. Glenn of South Carolina from 1751 to 1756 preserved in South Carolina archives served to alert colonial authorities of affairs in the Cherokee Nation and French aggression in the colonies. As the ancestor of thousands of mixed-blood Cherokees, his legacy has continued to this day throughout the Cherokee Nation and America. Through his marriage and marriages of his three mixed-blood granddaughters to English and Scotch colonists his legacy has resulted in a heritage to those who trace their roots to a man who left his country for a new life in America three hundred years ago.

Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee