History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner: the Raid of the Santee Sioux Against the Iowa Frontier Settlements, 1857 -- Abbie Gardner-Sharp, Paperback

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History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner: the Raid of the Santee Sioux Against the Iowa Frontier Settlements, 1857 -- Abbie Gardner-Sharp, PaperbackThe last Indian raid in Iowa The winter of 1856 7 was a particularly severe one in Iowa, with prolonged heavy snowfall across the region. In March 1857 a chronic shortage of game and other food persuaded the renegade Santee Sioux leader, Scarlet Point, to lead a band of fourteen warriors into the widely separated settlements near the Okoboji and Spirit Lakes, in north western part of the state close to the Minnesota border. Whether or not the violence

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