The Tearful Trail continues the gripping story of the dark chapter of American history called the Trail of Tears. Forced to leave their homelands in the southeastern states, the Cherokees, Choctaws and Creeks, and the friends who support them, must take a path marked by sorrow and danger. Caught in the maelstrom of this critical time, the Indians struggle to build new lives in the west and the missionaries who work among them face hardships of their own. While Cyrus and Electra Kingsbury walk through a blizzard with the Choctaws, Samuel Worcester stares at death in a Georgia prison for his stand with the Cherokees. Sandra Sawyer and Jesse Lockwood, new missionaries in the Neosho District, must face struggles from within and dangers from the wild and untamed land.