DAKOTA DAWN: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 1862 (edition 2011)

by Gregory Michno

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Title:	DAKOTA DAWN: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 1862
Authors:	Gregory Michno
Info:	Savas Beatie (2011), Hardcover, 492 pages
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DAKOTA DAWN: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 1862 by Gregory Michno

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In August of 1862, hundreds of Dakota warriors opened without warning a murderous rampage against settlers and soldiers in southern Minnesota. The vortex of the Dakota Uprising along the Minnesota River encompassed thousands of people in what was perhaps the greatest massacre of whites by Indians in American history. ... Dakota Dawn focuses in great detail on the first week of the killing spree, a great paroxysm of destruction when the Dakota succeeded, albeit fleetingly, in driving out the white man.-publisher description.… (more)

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