Massacre In Minnesota. The Dakota War Of 1862, The Most Violent Ethnic Conflict In American History

GARY CLAYTON ANDERSON

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Bright red cloth, titles in silver gilt on the spine, xiii [blank], 366 pp., preface, illustrated from photographs, portraits, map, notes, English-Dakota Name glossary, bibliography, index. This terrible war caused the deaths of more than 600 white settlers with more than 30,000 who fled the Minnesota frontier. More than 500 Indians, mostly women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict, and 38 Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.