Blood on the Prairie - A Novel of the Sioux Uprising Reviews

Blood on the Prairie – A Novel of the Sioux Uprising

2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the Dakota Conflict, or Sioux Uprising as it was called. Experience Minnesota’s Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 as seen through the eyes of Col. Henry Hastings Sibley, Commander of the Indian Expedition, Toby Ryker, Chief Scout for the Sixth Minnesota Regiment, soldiers and volunteers, and other characters who witnessed the Sioux massacre and its tragic consequences. The uprising culminated in the hanging of 38 Sioux warriors at Mankato on December 26th by Lincoln’s Union Army. This remains the largest mass execution in United States History. “Blood on the Prairie – A Novel of the Sioux Uprising,” is literature based on the events of the Sioux Uprising by Steven M. Ulmen, a native of Mankato MN where the execution took place.

Reviews:

Toby Ryker, chief scout for the Sixth Minnesota, is a red-headed, half white-half Chippewa man. Living life to the brim, he would rather ride the prairies than plow them. But his Sioux neighbors, dispairing a life of near starvation and broken treaties, rise up like a prairie whirlwind in September 1862. They mercilessly ravage the frontier, killing more than 1,000 settlers on Indian lands in the greatest storm of death rivaled only by the Civil War battles decimating the South. Ryker must remain loyal to the Army, aid his Indian kinsman or just stand aside. When the outgunned Sioux surrender, Ryker is left with one more bitter duty. Somehow he must find words to comfort the sorrowing wives of the 38 warriors who are condemned to hang. WILLIAM GARWOOD – TRUE WEST MAGAZINE MAY 2009

Steven Ulmen is a master storyteller as evidenced by “The Revenge of Little Crow,” his highly praised and self-published historical novel of the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota that took place in 1862. Now Ulmen has fine-tuned and re-edited that superb novel to make it even better. It has now been enhanced with respect to historical accuracy and published as “Blood on the Prairie – A Novel of the Sioux Uprising.” A novel of clashing cultures fought out in the closing decades of the 19th century, this is western historical fiction at its best and recommended for personal reading lists and community library collections. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW – THE FICTION SHELF – DECEMBER 2008

Endorsement:

“Steven M. Ulmen deftly blends elements of the traditional western novel with sound historical research to create a fast-moving and strikingly rich account of one of the West’s most overlooked events: the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota.” JOHNNY D. BOGGS, three-time Western Writers of America Spur Award winning author of NORTHFIELD and CAMP FORD.

2012 marks the 150th anniversary of the Dakota Conflict, or Sioux Uprising as it was called. Experience Minnesota’s Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 as seen through the eyes of Col. Henry Hastings Sibley, Commander of the Indian Expedition, Toby Ryker, Chief Scout for the Sixth Minnesota Regiment, soldiers and volunteers, and other characters who witnessed the Sioux massacre and its tragic consequences. The uprising culminated in the hanging of 38 Sioux warriors at Mankato on December 26th by Lincoln’s Union Army. This remains the largest mass execution in United States History. “Blood on the Prairie – A Novel of the Sioux Uprising,” is literature based on the events of the Sioux Uprising by Steven M. Ulmen, a native of Mankato MN where the execution took place.

Reviews:

Toby Ryker, chief scout for the Sixth Minnesota, is a red-headed, half white-half Chippewa man. Living life to the brim, he would rather ride the prairies than plow them. But his Sioux neighbors, dispairing a life of near starvation and broken treaties, rise up like a prairie whirlwind in September 1862. They mercilessly ravage the frontier, killing more than 1,000 settlers on Indian lands in the greatest storm of death rivaled only by the Civil War battles decimating the South. Ryker must remain loyal to the Army, aid his Indian kinsman or just stand aside. When the outgunned Sioux surrender, Ryker is left with one more bitter duty. Somehow he must find words to comfort the sorrowing wives of the 38 warriors who are condemned to hang. WILLIAM GARWOOD – TRUE WEST MAGAZINE MAY 2009

Steven Ulmen is a master storyteller as evidenced by “The Revenge of Little Crow,” his highly praised and self-published historical novel of the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota that took place in 1862. Now Ulmen has fine-tuned and re-edited that superb novel to make it even better. It has now been enhanced with respect to historical accuracy and published as “Blood on the Prairie – A Novel of the Sioux Uprising.” A novel of clashing cultures fought out in the closing decades of the 19th century, this is western historical fiction at its best and recommended for personal reading lists and community library collections. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW – THE FICTION SHELF – DECEMBER 2008

Endorsement:

“Steven M. Ulmen deftly blends elements of the traditional western novel with sound historical research to create a fast-moving and strikingly rich account of one of the West’s most overlooked events: the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota.” JOHNNY D. BOGGS, three-time Western Writers of America Spur Award winning author of NORTHFIELD and CAMP FORD.

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