Excerpt from The National Trails System: A Grand Experiment Today, the National Trails System encompasses more than miles of trails. They extend from Maine's Mount Katahdin, where the Appalachian National Scenic Trail begins, to Nome, Alaska, where the Iditarod Trail ends. Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail traces the southern terminus of the last continental glacier to push down over North America. The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail follows the route taken by some Cherokee when they were driven from their ancestral home in southern Appalachia in 1838 and forcibly relocated in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.