[PDF] The Story Of My Capture And Escape During The Minnesota Indian Massacre Of 1862 eBook

Author : Helen M. Tarble
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2022-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781387937653

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"Resilience and physical stamina enabled her to escape, Tarble is woman as victor." -The War in Words (2009) "Captivity apparently awakens Tarble's powers of dissent." -Bound and Determined (1996) "Helen Tarble and Minnie Carrigan were both captured by Indians during the Sioux outbreak, both wrote about their fears of death before they were finally rescued." -Westering Women and the Frontier Experience (1982) The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among tribes during hostile outbreaks along frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Helen M. Tarble in her 1904 narrative, "The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862." In August 1862, the Sioux of the Minnesota plains went on the warpath against white pioneers in the Dakota War or Sioux Outbreak of 1862. A young Caucasian pioneer woman Helen M. Tarble (1843-1921) and her children were captured. Upon news in August of 1862 of that the Sioux uprising had begun, the alarm soon spread throughout the settlement Tarble lived in, and it was decided that all should flee at once to Fort Ridgely. After fleeing a short distance in a horse-drawn wagon, Tarble relates: "We had not gone more than half a mile when, to our horror, a considerable number of Indians-perhaps 75 in all-rose up out of the tall prairie grass and surrounded us. ... Looking back I saw the whole band we had left coming after us, and heard the reports of three guns. The dreadful truth flashed upon me; the Indians were killing us! Several bullets struck the wagon...." Tarble relates that after her capture and during her ensuing captivity "they put me at work and found plenty of it to do. I chopped wood, brought water, gathered corn from the fields and fed the horses, and all the time I was closely watched and never allowed to go alone, a squaw always keeping at my side. Finally serious trouble threatened me. A squaw told me there was a great fuss among the Indians on my account. She said four braves claimed me, each for himself..."

Author : Lavinia Day Eastlick
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1787209059

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This is a fascinating, detailed firsthand eyewitness account of the Sioux Indian massacre at Lake Shetek in Minnesota that took place on August 20, 1862 by one of its survivors, Mrs. Lavinia Eastlick. “In presenting this pamphlet to the public, I have given merely a plain, unvarnished statement of all the facts that came under my own observation, during the dreadful massacre of the settlers of Minnesota. Mine only was a single case among hundreds of similar instances. It is only from explicit and minute accounts from the pen of the sufferers themselves, that people living at this distance from the scene of those atrocities can arrive at any just and adequate conception of the fiendishness of the Indian character, or the extremities of pain, terror and distress endured by the victims. It can hardly be decided which were least unfortunate, those who met an immediate death at the hands of the savages, or the survivors who, after enduring tortures worse than death, from hunger, fear, fatigue, and wounds, at last escaped barely with life.”—Mrs. L. Eastlick This book also includes photos, affidavits, and other material that were compiled by Mr. Ross A. Irish, Mrs. Eastlick nephew.

Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0806165707

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In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. But the devastation was not all on one side. More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict; and thirty-eight Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. The horror of such wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened in Minnesota in 1862—from its complicated origins to the consequences that reverberate to this day. A sweeping work of narrative history, the result of forty years’ research, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in U.S. history. Focusing on key figures caught up in the conflict—Indian, American, and Franco- and Anglo-Dakota—Gary Clayton Anderson gives these long-ago events a striking immediacy, capturing the fears of the fleeing settlers, the animosity of newspaper editors and soldiers, the violent dedication of Dakota warriors, and the terrible struggles of seized women and children. Through rarely seen journal entries, newspaper accounts, and military records, integrated with biographical detail, Anderson documents the vast corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the crisis that arose as pioneers overran Indian lands, the failures of tribal leadership and institutions, and the systemic strains caused by the Civil War. Anderson also gives due attention to Indian cultural viewpoints, offering insight into the relationship between Native warfare, religion, and life after death—a nexus critical to understanding the conflict. Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson’s account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War—and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity.

Author : Adrian Ebell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781620602652

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A Brief history of the Indian uprising and depredations in Minnesota during 1862.

Author : John A. Haymond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1476665109

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The U.S.-Dakota War, the bloodiest Indian war of the 19th century, erupted in southwestern Minnesota during the summer of 1862. In the war's aftermath, a hastily convened commission of five army officers conducted trials of 391 Indians charged with murder and massacre. In 36 days, 303 Dakota men were sentenced to death. In the largest simultaneous execution in American history, 38 were hanged on a single gallows on December 26, 1862--an incident now widely considered an act of revenge rather than judicial punishment. Providing fresh insight into this controversial event, this book examines the Dakota War trials from the perspective of 19th century military law. The author discusses the causes and far-reaching consequences of the war, the claims of widespread atrocities, the modern debate over the role of culture in lawful warfare and how the war has been depicted by historians.

Author : Minnie Buce Carrigan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2017-07-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781548693497

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The brutal bloodletting of over 800 civilians during the Dakota War of 1862 was meant to drive out the white American settlements from Minnesota while the Union was preoccupied with more headline grabbing battles like the Second Battle of Manassas and Antietam. The war took its toll between Mid-August and Late- September 1862 when Little Crow, the leader of the Dakota, surrendered his 269 captives at Camp Release. Minnie Buce Carrigan's memoirs of living in the Minnesota River Valley are unlike the "Little House on the Prairie" series of children's books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Minnie's tales of the 6 weeks during her childhood spent as a captive of the Dakota Sioux are in no way a children's story and probably a reason why so many have never heard the story. Told matter-of-factly with no punches pulled, she spares no details in the harshness and struggles of a captive's life.

Author : Mary Schwandt
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN :

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Concerns the Sioux [Dakota] Indian uprising in the summer of 1862 and Schwandt's capture and experiences while captive.

Author : A. P. Connolly
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A Thrilling Narrative of the Minnesota Massacre and the Sioux War of 1862-63 is a book by A. P. Connolly. It depicts The Dakota War, an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of eastern Dakota also known as the Santee Sioux in 1862.

Author : Charles S. Bryant
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2001-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1582184100

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Indian Massacre in Minnesota was written over 100 years ago by a man whose job was to process claims for property damaged by Sioux raiders after they went on the warpath, killing pioneer families and taking many of those who survived into captivity. The book begins by giving a brief account of the Sioux and the harsh treatment by our government.