click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

Hundreds of miles of paved bike trails await across the South. Winding for miles through fields, forests and sometimes, bustling urban areas, the South’s paved (but “no cars allowed”) trails beckon ...

It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi ...

A few miles west of the Parkersville location, we enter Birmingham, Iowa. It was laid out in 1839. Moving on we cross into ...