Description
December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. This event stands today as the greatest mass execution in the history of the United States. In Over The Earth I Come, Duane Schultz brilliantly retells one of America's most violent and bloody events--the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862.
Author: Duane Schultz
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 06/15/1993
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780312093600
ISBN10: 0312093608
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- History | United States | 19th Century
About the Author
Dennis C. Shultz is an environmental photographer living and working in Rockport, Maine. Scott Dickerson is the Executive Director of Coastal Mountains Land Trust and Coordinator of the Ducktrap Coalition, which he helped found in 1995.