Chromolithograph, Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians...

...at Mankato Minnesota December 26, 1862 by Hayes Lithograph Co., Buffalo, New York, 1883. The horrific mass hanging pictured here was the culmination of 1862's Dakota War in which Sioux bands tried to dislodge settlers from southwestern Minnesota. Hundreds were killed on both sides of the conflict. Presented behind glass in a wooden frame.

Overall age toning; two small areas of loss to the frame's beaded liner.

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