

38 Nooses
Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Author: Scott W. Berg
Narrator: Paul Heitsch
Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 09/24/2019
Synopsis
So began six weeks of intense conflict along the Minnesota frontier as the Dakotas clashed with settlers and federal troops. Once the uprising was smashed and the Dakotas captured, a military commission was convened, which quickly found more than three hundred Indians guilty of murder. President Lincoln personally intervened in order to spare the lives of 265 of the condemned men, but the toll on the Dakota nation was still staggering: a way of life destroyed, a tribe forcibly relocated to barren and unfamiliar territory, and thirty-eight Dakota warriors hanged.
Written with uncommon immediacy and insight, 38 Nooses details these events within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States–Indian wars. It is a revelation of an overlooked but seminal moment in American history.