Ink and Blood The Starr Family, the Treaty of New Echota, and the Cherokee Blood Feud That Followed the Trail of Tears

One signature. Three generations. A feud that bled across Indian Territory.On 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.To 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 con...