Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from New Echota Birthplace of the American Indian Press
By Hugn R. Awtrey, Associate Recreational Planner, National Park Service.
New Echota Marker National Memorial is one of the smallest and most obscure of the 162 areas administered by the National Park Service. Few travelers turn aside from the Dixie Highway (u. S. Route No. 41) onto the rural road that leads from the present town of Calhoun to a pastoral scene in the north Georgia hills where a modest stone chronicles brie?y the rise and fall of a nation. The story seldom is told, yet merits constant and eloquent repetition; for it is the recital of an unparalleled human achievement. It is the record of a people raised in a scant decade, by its own intellectual bootstraps, from unlettered savagery to the refined estate of a government by published code and a literature by the printed word. It is the moving but tragic history of the Cherokee Indians.
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