Birch Coulie : the epic battle of the Dakota war /

Birch Coulie : the epic battle of the Dakota war /

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Author / Creator:	Christgau, John.
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 137 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Birch Coulee, Battle of, Minn., 1862. Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865. Dakota Indians. Minnesota -- History -- 1858- Minnesota. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12630499

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ISBN:	9780803240155 0803240155 9780803236363 0803236360
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"A Bison original." Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	In the days following the Battle of Birch Coulie, the decisive battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862, one of President Lincoln's private secretaries wrote: "There has hardly been an outbreak so treacherous, so sudden, so bitter, and so bloody, as that which filled the State of Minnesota with sorrow and lamentation." Even today, at the 150th anniversary of the Dakota War, the battle still raises questions and stirs controversy. In Birch Coulie John Christgau recounts the dramatic events surrounding the battle. American history at its narrative best, his book is also a uniquely balanced and accurate chronicle of this little-understood conflict, one of the most important to roil the American West. Christgau's account of the war between white settlers and the Dakota Indians in Minnesota examines two communities torn by internal dissent and external threat, whites and Native Americans equally traumatized by the short and violent war. The book also delves into the aftermath, during which thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged without legal representation or the appearance of defense witnesses, the largest mass execution in American history. With its unusually nuanced perspective, Birch Coulie brings a welcome measure of clarity and insight to a critical moment in the troubled history of the American West. --Publisher description.
Other form:	Print version: Christgau, John. Birch Coulie. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803236363
Standard no.:	9786613596185

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; 1. Private Robert K. Boyd; 2. Red Iron; 3. Little Crow; 5. Gaboo; 6. Colonel Sam McPhail andLieutenant Sheehan; 7. Dr. Daniels; 8. The Messenger; 9. Little Paul; 4. Gray Bird; 10. Epilogues; Acknowledgments; Sources.