Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands

By virtue of a broken treaty in 1838, 15,000 members of the Cherokee Tribewere sold down the river by President Andrew Jackson and were forced to walk fromtheir ancestral homes in the southeastern United States to designated Indian Territoryof present day Oklahoma. An estimated 4,000 Cherokee Indians perished along the wayand their dead bodies lined the pathway of what is now known as the Cherokee Trail ofTears.During that same year, Englishmen were being forced from their country bythe dismal economy, as Queen Victoria turned a blind eye to the plight of her dog-tiredand penniless subjects. Long hours of backbreaking labor in the dreary workhousescaused those looking for a better life to set sail for America. There, they would be free topursue success, and for one family, that meant moving westward to Oklahoma.Let The Rivers Clap Their Hands is a masterfully woven saga of the emergingtale of two families from two very different backgrounds, each finding themselves freshlytransplanted in the midst of Indian Territory in Oklahoma. From the hardships of theirpasts, to the wake of the Great Depression, to the dawn of World War II, these families’trials tell the tale of love, heartache, and hope.As a winding river has twists and turns, readers will discover the same with thisriveting tale. Let The Rivers Clap Their Hands is a book readers will not want to putdown.