The Indian Ozarks Early History.

I would love to find out more about the OZARKS. 

My Greatgrandmother came to the Ozarks in the mid 1800s on the trail of tears with her family.  She settled in Cabin Creek Area.  She was Cherokee/Chickasaw.  She met my Greatgrandfather a fur trapper who came to America as a 12 year old child from Amsterdam, Holland.  He fell in love with my Great grandmother and traded furs for her.  They lived in Cabin Creek in a log cabin in the Ozark mountains.  My great grandmother died 9 days after giving birth to my grandmother in 1910.  My grandmother was taken by her father to her native natural family who tried to raise her.  A white family came through in a wagon and homesteded a piece of land to farm nearby.  They heard of a half indian baby and came and took the baby to raise her.  She went to an indian boarding school in Cabin Creek, Ark.  I dont know the name, but would like to find out.  She got married at 15 or 16 to my Grandfather part of the Bullock/Benefiel Family and settled in the Ozarks on land that they farmed.  My grandfather had grapes, apples, chickens, goats, and all kinds of vegetables.  He also moonshined whiskey.  Alot of stories my grandmother told me about the Ozarks and the spooky ghosts she heard and her experiences.   She was a great story teller who will be greatly missed.  Myrtle died in 2006.    My family from my grandfather's side still lives in Lamare and the Ozarks.  Someday I want to visit there.  Thanks KR