A Tale of the Dakota Uprising of 1862

It was August 1862, and the Civil War was raging, when the Dakota left their Minnesota reservation and rose in what was the largest Indian uprising in American history, and unique in that even sizable towns and army bases were attacked. In the uprising the small settlement at Lake Shetek in Southwestern Minnesota was attacked, and three white women and eight children taken captive. This story is of how a group of teen-aged youths of the Lakota, the western branch of the Sioux Nation, set out to free those captives at the risk of their own lives.

The author grew up in a small northern Minnesota town, obtained an engineering degree, and after an army tour spent the next 32 years in the computer industry, largely in the Minneapolis area. Now retired, the author lives in a Minneapolis suburb bordering the Minnesota River, less than a three-hour drive from where the initial events in this story took place; a story of a little known event from the 1862 Dakota uprising in Minnesota. Here that story is passed on in a mixture of history and historical fiction.