Indians' Revenge or Days of Horror, Some Appalling Events in the History of the Sioux
by Berghold, Rev. Alexander
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About This Item
San Francisco: P. J. Thomas, 1891. [First Edition - First English Translation]. Original wraps. Good. 12mo, 240 pp., Seven of eight illustrations; lacks the frontispiece, hinges reinforced with tape, closed tear to front cover, wraps are rough around the edges. -- Printed on high content wood pulp paper. Fragile item.-- Condition. "A classic chapter of American history. The 1862 Sioux uprising in Minnesota known as the Dakota Conflict is retold in this new presentation of the first-hand accounts woven together at the time by a local parish leader. The uprising and its aftermath are detailed with the skill of a historian and the moral insight of a theologian, positioning the Dakota Conflict squarely in the context of early German-American settlement and distilling the Catholic perspectives of the era".-worldcat. -- First published in German in 1876. -- Chapter on Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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- Bookseller
- Lonesome Water Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10018
- Title
- Indians' Revenge or Days of Horror, Some Appalling Events in the History of the Sioux
- Author
- Berghold, Rev. Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Original wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- [First Edition - First English Translation]
- Publisher
- P. J. Thomas
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Antiquarian Books, Nonfiction, Western Americana, Native American, Sioux Indians, Minnesota, Dakota Conflict, uprising, German-American Settlement, Catholic, New Ulm Massacre, First English Translation, Custer, depredations, Battle of the Little Big
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATIVE AMERICAN;
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