Walking the Trail
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| author = Jerry Ellis
| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Memoir
| publisher = Delacorte Press
| release_date = 1991
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| media_type = Print (hardcover)
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| isbn = 9780803267435
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Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears is the 1991 book by Jerry Ellis telling the story of his 900-mile walk along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the same walk his ancestors were forced to take in 1838. Walking the Trail has been used in classrooms and as a teaching resource by award-winning educators, including James Percoco{{cite news|last= Nelson |first=Cyndi |url=http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20110623/NEWS/110629912 |title=Jerry Ellis' book on Trail of Tears part of National Teachers Hall of Fame|publisher=gadsdentimes.com |date=June 23, 2011 |accessdate=May 11, 2015}} who is in the National Teachers Hall of Fame.
Reception
The work was well received, with the Los Angeles Times stating that "Jerry Ellis is an ideal companion for a long ramble along the back roads of America, which is precisely what he provides in Walking the Trail, a picaresque account of his trek over the Trail of Tears in commemoration of his Cherokee ancestors and in search of some elusive ideal of freedom and fulfillment."{{cite news|last=KIRSCH |first=JONATHAN |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-30-vw-415-story.html |title=BOOK REVIEW : A Road Beckons, the Mind Wanders : WALKING THE TRAIL; One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Jerry Ellis|work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 30, 1991 |access-date=May 10, 2015}}