| Chief Bowles and the Texas Cherokees Contributor(s): Clarke, Mary Whatley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806134364 ISBN-13: 9780806134369 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2003 Annotation: The Chickamauga Cherokees from Running Water on the Tennessee River were continually forced to relocate. They managed to create a home in Texas after their relocation there in the early nineteenth century. When settlers tried to take away the rich Texas lands, Chief Philip Bowles and his warriors made a final stand on the battlefield. Their stand resulted in defeat and the dispersal of the Chickamauga Cherokees to far-flung homes on reservations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 720160490 |
| Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.44" (0.62 lbs) 166 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here is the gripping story of the last stand of Chief Philip Bowles of the Chickamauga Cherokee Indians of Texas. Mary Whatley Clarke sets this tale against the stormy background of Anglo-Cherokee-Mexican relations in early nineteenth-century Texas. The Chickamauga Cherokees from Running Water on the Tennessee River were continually forced to relocate-first to Missouri, then to Arkansas, and finally to Texas. They managed to make a home of their new Texas residence. Then, as has happened many times before and since in Anglo-Indian relations, settlers began to look with increasing desire at the rich Indian lands. The Chickamauga Cherokee had had enough of relocation, and, on a blistering July day in 1839, Chief Bowles and his warriors made a tragic and bloody final stand on the battlefield defending their new Texas home. Their stand resulted in defeat and the dispersal of the Chickamauga Cherokees to far-flung homes on reservations. Could this history have taken a different course? Perhaps not, for, as Mary Whatley Clarke observes, the Cherokee had become "a red island in a white sea," and it seems inevitable that the Anglo-American would submerge that island. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clarke, Mary Whatley: - Mary Whatley Clarke is author of John Simpson Chisum: Jinglebob King of the Pecos and The Slaughter Ranches and Their Makers. |