Bibliograph

Cherokee America, Margaret Verble

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Cherokee America, Margaret Verble

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Cherokee America

Responsibility statement

Margaret Verble

Summary

It?s the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer, known as “Check,” a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow, is not amused. In this epic of the American frontier, several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a neighbor disappears; another man is killed. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check?s mixed race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community?and painfully expel one of their own

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