Removing the Cherokee - A Soldier's story
Join Tony Gerard for this fictitious, first person narrative based on historical documentation. Caleb Tucker is a career infantry soldiers assigned to gather the Cherokee for forced removal to Oklahoma in the 1830s. He later takes his discharge from the military and signs on as a teamster with a civilian contractor, accompanying the Cherokee on the “Trail of Tears.”
Tony Gerard teaches Biology at Shawnee Community College. He has been involved in living history since the early 1980s, with a particular interest in the eastern frontier of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Gerard has given seminars on first person interpretation at various historic sites throughout the US and Canada, including Colonial Williamsburg, Fortress Louisburg, Fort Loudon, and Fort Toulouse. He has served as a technical advisor, casting, set dressing, and location scout for numerous History Channel productions (over 30 to date) and was a core extra in the motion picture Last of the Mohicans and the recent PBS production The War That Made America.
