FARGO — Paul Hedren grew up in a part of Minnesota where the Dakota War of 1862 was ignited when starving Dakota renegades raided the Lower Sioux Agency and white settlements along the Minnesota River ...

Irish immigrant John Finerty (1846-1908), landed in the United States in time to see some service in the Civil War. Postwar, he became a newspaper reporter, and in 1876 he covered the “Great Sioux War ...

A new focus on the Sioux War : barrier to the cattleman / Mark H. Brown -- A challenge to Brown's Indian Wars thesis / Harry H. Anderson -- 1876 on the reservations : the Indian "question" / Michael P ...