'Lincoln's Bishop,' by Gustav Niebuhr, tells the little-known story of Henry B. Whipple, Minnesota's first Episcopal bishop, who tried to convince Lincoln to reform the Office of Indian Affairs and tried to calm white hysteria in the wake of the Sioux Uprising of 1862.
Read More"Navajo Wars" is a fascinating and innovative solitaire boardgame of Navajo culture, society and warfare, from the Spanish incursion in 1598 through the wars with the US Army that ended in 1864. The components are beautiful but the learning curve is steep.
Read More"Rallies, Repulses, and 'Villainous Falsehoods'" is an excerpt from a new book by Marc H. Abrams, 'Sioux War Dispatches: Reports from the Field, 1874–1877.'
Read MoreWhen artist Charles St. George Stanley found himself in the midst of the 1876 fight at Tongue River Heights, Wyoming, 'away went all my grand ideas of bravery, and the humiliation of the situation burst upon me in all its vividness.'
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