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Book SynopsisIn August 1862 the worst massacre in US history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what came to be known as the Dakota War. The wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened. A sweeping work of narrative history,
Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in US history.
Trade ReviewAnderson's account of the Dakota uprising of 1862 is now the definitive one of an event - shamefully corrupt in its origins, horrific in its unfolding, and tragic in its aftermath - that must stand among the most appalling and revealing in the long history of Indian-white relations. ""- Elliott West, author of
The Essential West: Collected Essays and
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story|""Exhaustively researched and copiously documented, Anderson's history of the Minnesota-Dakota War of 1862 offers fresh perspectives and a superior understanding of both Dakota culture and federal Indian policy. This will become the standard work on the subject."" - William E. Lass, author of
Minnesota: A History and
Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway
