Documentary: 'Little War on the Prairie'

The public execution of 38 Dakota Indians by federal authorities in Mankato, Minn., on Dec. 26, 1862. Copied from a sketch by W.H. Childs in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 24, 1863.
Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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