Tsali: Legendary Hero of the Eastern Band Cherokee

By Gail Cartee and Frances Espanol

Soldiers come into the mountains of North Carolina to take the Cherokee to a reservation in Oklahoma, disrupting the quiet farm life of Tsali and his family. Tsalis natural instinct to protect his family leads to the death of a soldier. Is Tsali a killer? Will he be a martyr? As with other historical figures like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Johnny Appleseed, we often make our heroes more than human. So is the story of Tsali.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514484548

Gail Cartee

Gail Cartee has a heart for children and history. She has taught for more than twenty years in the schools surrounding her beloved mountains. Her deep love of history prompted her to write Tsali, a fictional account of the legendary hero of the Eastern Band Cherokee. She and her husband live in the foothills of South Carolina thanks to the sacrifices of her Cherokee ancestors. You may read more from Gail at www.gailcartee.blogspot.com.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 04/20/2016

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Tsali

Legendary Hero of the Eastern Band Cherokee

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13 (KJV)

October 1838, Tsali, a Cherokee farmer in the Great Smokey Mountains, and