The Great Sioux Uprising

Informationen zum Autor C. M. Oehler wrote Time in the Timber, a memoir of his experiences as a lumberjack. Klappentext In August 1862 the Sioux of Minnesota rose up against their white neighbors in the bloodiest massacre in the history of the West, with four times the fatalities of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Sioux had been viewed by white settlers as a friendly tribe, but in reality they were deeply resentful over the loss of lands, the disappearance of the buffalo, broken treaties, the government's delayed annuity payments, and the refusal of traders to release food to starving Indians. During their week-long rampage the Sioux killed some 800 settlers, took scores of women and children captive, sent tens of thousands of refugees fleeing eastward, and marked the outbreak of a series of wars between whites and Indians over the Great Plains that did not end until nearly thirty years later at a place called Wounded Knee. This book is a gripping but even-handed reconstruction of the lives and deaths of settlers, Indians, traders, agents, and soldiers as they unknowingly created an epic chapter of frontier history. Zusammenfassung "In August 1862 the Sioux of Minnesota rose up against their white neighbors in the bloodiest massacre in the history of the West, with four times the fatalities of the Battle of Little Big Horn. They" Inhaltsverzeichnis You Are Afraid of the White Man Plant a Good Deal of Ground The Greatest among the Chiefs Little Crow Will Lead Them All Let Myrick Eat Grass The Fun of Killing the Whites God Is the Refuge of His Saints Ridgely Was in Now Sense a Fort Two Heavy Boxes Surely Help Is on the Way Everyones Friend That Gun Was Terrible A Very Fine Spectacle With Utmost Promptitude No Calamity Received Less Attention Kill! If Indian The Captors Were Annoyed My Mothers People Remember Birch Coulee! I Have Done This Myself Accidental Victory Utterly Exterminate the Sioux Fearful Collision More a Growl than a Cheer Nimble Adversary The Capitol Was Draped in Black ...

Autorentext

C. M. Oehler wrote Time in the Timber, a memoir of his experiences as a lumberjack.

Klappentext

In August 1862 the Sioux of Minnesota rose up against their white neighbors in the bloodiest massacre in the history of the West, with four times the fatalities of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Sioux had been viewed by white settlers as a friendly tribe, but in reality they were deeply resentful over the loss of lands, the disappearance of the buffalo, broken treaties, the government's delayed annuity payments, and the refusal of traders to release food to starving Indians. During their week-long rampage the Sioux killed some 800 settlers, took scores of women and children captive, sent tens of thousands of refugees fleeing eastward, and marked the outbreak of a series of wars between whites and Indians over the Great Plains that did not end until nearly thirty years later at a place called Wounded Knee. This book is a gripping but even-handed reconstruction of the lives and deaths of settlers, Indians, traders, agents, and soldiers as they unknowingly created an epic chapter of frontier history.

Inhalt

• You Are Afraid of the White Man Plant a Good Deal of Ground The Greatest among the Chiefs Little Crow Will Lead Them All Let Myrick Eat Grass The Fun of Killing the Whites God Is the Refuge of His Saints Ridgely Was in Now Sense a Fort Two Heavy Boxes Surely Help Is on the Way Everyones Friend That Gun Was Terrible A Very Fine Spectacle With Utmost Promptitude No Calamity Received Less Attention Kill, If Indian The Captors Were Annoyed My Mothers People Remember Birch Coulee! I Have Done This Myself Accidental Victory Utterly Exterminate the Sioux Fearful Collision More a Growl than a Cheer Nimble Adversary * The Capitol Was Draped in Black