W. Jeff Bishop

A mid-century small-town Georgia trial involving a self-proclaimed "Oracle of the Ages" conjures a new musical phantasmagoria stocked with sharecroppers, Sacred Harp singers, righteous officers of the law, racial divides, a young newspaper reporter, holy rollers, and, of course, murder.

For the first time: the Cherokee Removal, popularly known as the "Trail of Tears," as told from a primarily Cherokee perspective. Public historian W. Jeff Bishop weaves a new account of the Indian Removal, using claims filed against the U,S. government by the Cherokees soon after the event.

A true story of madness, moonshine and murder in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.