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(0)Rhoda R Gilman
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As the first of the MHS Express imprint, this short e-book will highlight the rifts and crises leading up to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota between the Dakota people and the U.S. government, as keenly represented by then-governor and later militia colonel Henry Sibley, and will weave together excerpts from the 2004 MHS book, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart, and with a new MHS Express introduction by author Rhoda Gilman.
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Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--no person played a longer, more influential, or more varied role in the shaping of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-91). Yet Sibley's history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the nineteenth century frontiersman who is at once an accommodating trade partner of the Indian/European/Metis worlds and the conquering government official of the ever-expanding West. Rhoda...