John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well.
Ridge was born to a prominent Cherokee Indian family in 1827, a tumultuous and violent time when the state of Georgia was trying to impose its sovereignty on the Cherokee Nation and wh.
A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic poet who made things happen, and Joaquin Murieta, the legendary bandit he would immortalize, John Rollin Ridge was a controversial, celebrated, and self-cast exile.
John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well