Item #12796 The Sioux Wars (South Dakota Historical Collections Volume XV, 1930). SIOUX, Charles E. DeLand, State Department of History.

The Sioux Wars (South Dakota Historical Collections Volume XV, 1930)

Pierre, SD: Hipple Printing Company, 1930.

First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 730 pp, indexed, illustrated with sketches and maps, but lacking the photograph of the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Hinges starting, rubbing to extremities. All but the first 9 pages of the volume (procedural matters of the State Historical Society) are taken up by DeLand's monumental work, which was continued in a second volume in 1934. "The purpose of this study is to present the successive crises of the Dakota or Sioux Nation of Indians, after leaving Minnesota, in their contacts with the Whites, as the latter pressed upon their domains in the Northwest; as reflected in the conflicts at arms..." (Introduction). This volume covers the Minnesota Sioux outbreak of 1862; Red Cloud's war of 1867; the Great Sioux War of 1876-77; and Wounded Knee, and draws on an interview with Sitting Bull and the accounts of many battle survivors.

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