Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Start Of The Western Civil War


Four young Dakota hunters on August 17th 1862 stopped at the store of Acton, Meeker County Minnesota Postmaster Robinson Jones. Jones went with them to a neighbor’s Howard Baker, where without warning the Indians shot and killed the two men along with three other settlers in the area. This began the Dakota War of 1862.

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