<p>Most of the original Cherokees residing in the Qualla Boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina and in are descendants of the Old Middle Settlement stock of people. They avoided the Trail of Tears. Hereâ??s their story.</p>

Qualla: Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlement : Tales of the Great Smoky Mountains' Native Americans

History

Middleton, T. Walter

Americas

Alexander Books

Most of the original Cherokees residing in the Qualla Boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina and in are descendants of the Old Middle Settlement stock of people. They avoided the Trail of Tears. Hereâ??s their story.

Qualla: Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlements

Worldcomm Pr

<p>Through all of my research I have come to know and sympathize with a simple, hard working group of isolated mountain farmers who were trying hard to scrounge out a puny living and were happy for the privilege. Almost as hard as their long hours of toil, they had to deal with the lawlessness that frequently abused them. My intention is to reveal their plight and how they dealt with it.</p>

Trouble at the Forks

T. Walter Middleton survived more than 3-1/2 years of imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II. Starting with the Bataan Death March (a forced march of 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines), followed by a China Sea crossing in the Hell Ships, and finally liberation from a slave labor camp in Mukden, Manchuria, he saw humanity at its worst and at its best.

Flashbacks: Prisoner of War in the Philippines

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Flashbacks

Roberts, Ralph