The Proud and the Free

by Janet Dailey

Book Overview

Set in the 1830s in the US state of Georgia, against a background of conflict between the native Cherokee Indians and the Georgians, this is a story of powerful love between Temple Gordon and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446602086
• ISBN13: 9780446602082
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Vision
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

I have only 1 word - OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!

A must read, I could not put it down.

This Book Taught Me About History As Well As A Good Story

I really enjoyed learning more about American history as well as the story about the family and the teacher. It held me captive as I read it in one day. I will save it for my genealgy files, too.

Rich Cherokees!

I am part Cherokee, and I've studied about the Cherokees for years while doing research for a book I'm trying to write, but never did I know that there were rich Cherokees in Georgia. Never did I know that they owned large plantations. Of course, these large plantations were built by the Scots and Irish and English that came across the waters, but these men married Cherokee women and had children who were brought up rich.In this book, The Proud and the Free, the story is pre-Trail of Tears, where thousands upon thousands of Indians were driven out of the east toward Indian Territory (later known as Oklahoma). It is the story of a young half-breed Indian girl who is very rich, very powerful, and very stuck up.It is the story also of another young woman, a teacher from Pennsylvania who comes to teach the young girl and her siblings. This is a teacher who also winds up teaching the young slave children, even though the Indian girl and her siblings think they are so much better than the slave children. The slave children, especially the little boy, is extremely smart, and learns his alphabet quickly.The young Indian girl is in love with a neighbor Cherokee, who from Janet Dailey's description is simply gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, though not in those words.This is a different look at the Cherokee way of life before the Trail of Tears and the determination of the Georgians, a group of white men, who literally drove the Cherokees out of Georgia.I give this book 4 stars.

LOVE and HATE

This book actually reached out and touched me. I couldn't put it down. I am now reading it for the 5th time i believe. This story was truly amazing.

A HEART-WRENCHING story of LOVE and DISCRIMINATION!!!

This story has got to be one of the best books I've ever read in my whole life!!! It has opened my eyes on the things that's happening around me, mainly the discrimination between the two races. How could people who are equal in God's eye be so cruel to each other? Still, despite this barrier, the love of two people for each other has proven to be superior.