The Dan- ish pilot John Scolvus, who led the expedition to Greenland, may have gone there, though the story that he was sent by Alfonso of ... for the heirs of Madoc took the Welsh clergyman John Evans all the way to North Dakota.
“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
Toward the Setting Sun
Toward the Setting Sun
Most Americans don't look far beyond Christopher Columbus when it comes to the discovery of America, yet the simple fact that we bear the name of Amerigo Vespucci suggests there is more to the story.
Deep in East Texas, the O'Shea family discovers the true meaning of fear, love and acceptance while searching for a "parcel" of land to call their own.
This book relates the history of the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Indian territory in Oklahoma and the struggle by their principal chief, John Ross, to prevent their removal from their ...