A Personal Narrative of Indian Massacres 1862

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Label

A Personal Narrative of Indian Massacres 1862

Creator

• Eastlick, Mrs. L

Subject

• Electronic books
• Minnesota
• Narratives -- Indian Massacres

Genre

• Electronic books
• Indian Massacres

Language

eng

Summary

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. EastlickThis book also includes photos, affidavits, and other material that were compiled by Mr. Ross A. Irish, Mrs. Eastlick nephew

Member of

• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult