Description
Book Synopsis Custer, Sitting Bull and Little Bighorn are familiar names in the history of the American West. Yet the Great Sioux War of 1876 was a less notorious affair than earlier events in Minnesota during 1862 when, over a few bloody weeks, hundreds of white settlers were killed by Sioux led by Little Crow. The following three years saw military thrusts under generals Sibley and Sully onto the Western Plains where hundreds of Indians, as innocent as the white victims, were cut down by American soldiers. From this carnage Sitting Bull first emerged as a military leader. This history reexamines the facts behind Sitting Bull''s legend and that of the white captive, Fanny Kelly.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments—v
- Preface—1
- 1. Don't Try and Cross the River There—5
- 2. Popularity Is His God—13
- 3. Subsisted on a Tall Grass—25
- 4. You Know Not What You Are Doing—34
- 5. A Dreadful Scene—40
- 6. We Laughed in Spite of Our Danger—57
- 7. We Shall Need More Guns—81
- 8. I Have a Great Many Prisoners, Women and Children—93
- 9. They Will Never Get My Live Body—102
- 10. Maniacs or Wild Beasts—113
- 11. Five Minutes Would Dispose of a Case—121
- 12. The Shot That Killed Him—140
- 13. The Girl I Left Behind Me—146
- 14. The Results Are Entirely Satisfactory—164
- 15. An Indian Campaign Is Approved—180
- 16. Am I Free, Indeed Free?—196
- 17. They Fear It Is Only a Trap—213
- 18. The Indian No Longer Has a Country—224
- Appendix: Timeline of the Dakota War of 1862–1865—229
- Chapter Notes—233
- Bibliography—241
- Index—247
