Birch Coulie Signed by Bernard Francis Ederer Sioux Indian Uprising in Minnesota

~ A Novel of the Native American ~ Indian Uprising in Minnesota in 1862 ~

Birch Coulie

First Edition
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
1957
Vintage
Book
written & signed
by
Bernard Francis Ederer

Indian
Continental
Edition
1862-1962

On September 2, 1862, during the Dakota War, the bloody drama of the Indian Massacre was enacted in the Minnesota Valley, and although many accounts of the massacre have been written, no pen has yet been able to adequately describe or portray the awful experience endured by the defenseless settlers during those dark days

In the loss of life and sacrifice of property no India conflict in the country has never equaled this massacre

The burning, pillaging, murdering, and torturing that went on are awful to contemplate

One writer alludes to it thusly:
Am all-seeing eye looking down from above could have seen this avalanche of 30,000 human beings of all ages and in all conditions, their rear ranks maimed and bleeding, and faint from starvation and loss of bl