Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print The scene burns with the

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ritualized — the bereavement of a generation grown older than the boys it lost

Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print The scene burns with theExecution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 documents the largest mass execution in American history the scaffold at Mankato rendered in stark documentary engraving, the condemned arranged in a single grim circle as Lincoln's commuted list still left thirty eight to hang. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional