The Cross Timbers

Clashes between Cherokees who lived and hunted in the mountains and trespassing gold prospectors were increasing. Sooner or later someone was going to get hurt, perhaps even killed. As the men crept carefully through the woods, Elias feared Lem Starr may have become the first casualty in the race to riches."The Cross Timbers continues the true-life saga of the Cherokees and Creeks being forced to leave their homelands in Georgia and journey west to the Indian Territory. The struggle to begin new lives on the frontier challenges the young mission worker Cornelia Tuttle and her friend Jane Hawkins. An old enemy Oliver Ackley seeks refuge from the law among the western Cherokees and brings discord and fear. Should his victim Lem Starr follow the path of the avenger and take Ackley's life? Or will Lem offer mercy on the road among the Cross Timbers?