{"product_id":"ink-and-blood-the-starr-julia-wolbrook-9798235017283","title":"Ink and Blood The Starr Family, the Treaty of New Echota, and the Cherokee Blood Feud That Followed the Trail of Tears","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne signature. Three generations. A feud that bled across Indian Territory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a winter night in 1845, two men slipped into a Cherokee politician's home, found him asleep, and killed him in his bed. The murderers were brothers, and they were Starrs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo understand why, you have to go back seventy years, to a teenage Quaker trader who walked into the Cherokee mountains with an eye for profit and a conviction that his own people were destined to win the land. \u003cstrong\u003eCaleb Starr\u003c\/strong\u003e married into the family of the legendary Beloved Woman \u003cstrong\u003eNancy Ward\u003c\/strong\u003e, prospered on a plantation worked by enslaved people, and spent the rest of his life urging the Cherokee to give up their homeland. The women of his own family stood before the National Council and called men like him \"our worst enemies.\" He never listened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis son \u003cstrong\u003eJames Starr\u003c\/strong\u003e inherited the creed. In 1835, he signed the \u003cstrong\u003eTreaty of New Echota\u003c\/strong\u003e, the document that set the \u003cstrong\u003eTrail of Tears\u003c\/strong\u003e in motion. Four years later, the men who had signed it were being hunted across Oklahoma. The Ridges and Elias Boudinot were killed in a single morning. Then the survivors' sons rode out to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Starr\u003c\/strong\u003e, six feet five and smiling when he talked, became the most feared man in the Cherokee Nation. Legend hung a necklace of dried earlobes around his neck and a hundred killings on his name. His gang raided, burned, and vanished across the Arkansas line. The Cherokee police could not catch them. Then, on a Sunday in November 1845, a posse of Ross men rode to James Starr's door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInk and Blood\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is the first narrative history to put the Starr family at the center of the Cherokee Civil War.\u003c\/strong\u003e Drawing on letters, newspapers, emigration rolls, and oral histories, it separates fact from Wild West myths and asks whether the Starr gang were mere outlaws or political killers with a cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Wolbrook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235017283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Serena Capuozzo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d","brand":"Julia Wolbrook","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780321317119,"sku":"9798235017283","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7e6652e-1491-4649-8d4d-dd1393b81f2f.jpg?v=1792950745","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ink-and-blood-the-starr-julia-wolbrook-9798235017283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}