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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier’s End

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A Kirkus Reviews Very best Book of the Year
 
In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people should go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising used to be smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the United States army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in essentially the most devastating period of the Civil War, for my part intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but after all, 38 Dakota men would be hanged within the largest government-sanctioned execution in U.S. history.
 
Writing with uncommon immediacy and insight, Scott W. Berg details these events throughout the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people and the subsequent United States–Indian wars, and brings to life this lost sight of but seminal moment in American history.

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