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  • PREFACE.
  • FORTY YEARS AGO. From the Buffalo Lake News.
  • CHAPTER I.
  • CHAPTER II. MURDER MOST FOUL.
  • CHAPTER III. IN THE INDIAN CAMP.
  • CHAPTER IV. HENRIETTA.
  • CHAPTER V. A SACRED FEAST.
  • CHAPTER VI. THE STARS OF HOPE.
  • CHAPTER VII. ON THE ROAD TO ST. PETER.
  • THE NEGRO GODFREY.
  • THE STORY OF EMANUEL REYFF.
  • THE STORY OF J. G. LANE.
  • THE STORY OF MRS. INEFELDT.
  • THE STORY OF MINNIE KRIEGER. HALF SISTER OF J. G. LANE; AGE 6.

    • Captured by the Indians; reminiscences of pioneer life in Minnesota

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    Captured By The
    Indians

    Reminiscences of Pioneer Life
    in Minnesota    .


    By
    MINNIE BUCE CARRIGAN.
    1712




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    21-1400. General Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright status not determined; refer to accompanying matter.

    This book is an account of Minnie Buce Carrigan's captivity among the Sioux after the 1862 uprising and her subsequent experience as an orphan. Carrigan emigrated with her German parents to Fox Lake, Wisconsin in 1858. Two years later they helped to establish a German settlement at Middle Creek in Renville County, Minnesota, where they lived in relative comfort and peace among the Sioux [Dakota]. By 1862, the numbers of settlers had grown exponentially, and their Sioux neighbors began to display signs of hostility. On August 18, 1862, when Carrigan was only about seven years of age, her parents and two of her siblings were killed during the Sioux uprising. Carrigan was taken captive with a brother and sister and spent ten weeks among the Sioux before the U.S. army compelled the return of all captives. Several other survivors, Emanuel Reyff, J.G. Lane, Mrs. Inefeldt, and Minnie Krieger, relate their own experiences in a final section of the book.

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