38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Berg, Scott W.

38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307389138)

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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Berg, Scott W.

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

$17.00
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Berg, Scott W.

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

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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A Kirkus Reviews 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 must go to war. After six weeks of fighting, the uprising was smashed, thousands of Indians were taken prisoner by the US army, and 303 Dakotas were sentenced to death. President Lincoln, embroiled in the most devastating period of the Civil War, personally intervened to save the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but in the end, 38 Dakota men would be hanged in the largest government-sanctioned execution in U.S. history.

Writing with uncommon immediacy and insight, Scott W. Berg details these events within 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 overlooked but seminal moment in American history.

Author: Scott W. Berg
ISBN-10: 0307389138
ISBN-13: 9780307389138
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2013
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.29w x 0.84d
By Scott W. Berg
By Scott W. Berg
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Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Scott W. Berg holds a BA in architecture from the University of Minnesota, an MA from Miami University of Ohio, and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University, where he now teaches writing and literature. The author of Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C., he is a regular contributor to The Washington Post.

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