Crocket died at the Alamo in Texas on 6 March 1836.
The Trail of Tears took place in 1838 and 1839, meaning that Crocket had been dead for 2 or 3 years when it took place.
The trail of tears
That was the Cherokee Trail of Tears - the only one history seems to want to remember. However, there truly were many, many trails of tears for the American Indian tribes.
They moved west on what became known as the Trail of Tears
In the Trail of Tears, about 4,000 of the 16,000 Cherokee Indians died to their new journey to Oklahoma from Georgia.
Andrew Jackson forced the indians to move west mainly in oklahoma through the trail of tears
Famine and diseasesplagued Indians on the Trail of Tears.
The trail of tears
The Cherokee Indians
Trail of Tears
The trail that the Indians walked on was nicknamed "The Trail Of Tears".
"Trail of Tears" "Trail of Tears"
It was the Cherokee Indians that perished along the 4,000 mile long Trail of Tears.
Trail of the tears
To remind people of the suffering American Indians endured on the Trail of Tears.
The Trail of Tears (APEX)
One such journey was referred to as the Trail of Tears.
Wilson Lumpkin has written: 'The removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, 1827-1841' -- subject(s): History, Politics and government, Cherokee Indians, Trail of Tears, 1838, Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 'The removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia' -- subject(s): History, Politics and government, Cherokee Indians, Trail of Tears, 1838, Trail of Tears, 1838-1839