The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...

Some stones appear to have naturally carved faces -- perhaps a reference to the 1830s Trail of Tears -- in the Wichahpi Commemorative Stone Wall near Florence, Ala. (Melanie Radzicki McManus/For ...

Survivors described the journey as “the place where they ... across nine states and 5,000 miles, by the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. As the American frontier bulged westward in the early ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...