The Way Was Through Woods: The Story of Tomo-Chi-Chi

Forgotten Pioneers

by Sara Harrell Banks

Traces the life of Tomo-chi-chi, chief of the Yamacraw Indians in coastal Georgia at the time the colony was founded by James Oglethorpe

86 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Sara Harrell Banks won the 1997 Georgia Author of the Year award for "Under the Shadow of Wings." This novel was also an "American Bookseller" Pick of the Lists and hailed by "School Library Journal" as "Powerful [and] compelling," with a narrator "reminiscent of Harper Lee's Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird.""
Ms. Banks is also the author of "Remember My Name, The Way Was Through the Woods, " and the picture book "A Net to Catch Time." She lives in Savannah, Georgia.