The Dakota War of 1862
By: Kenneth Carley.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: St. Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865.
Description: "Packinghouse Daughter is a blend of memoir, myth, and the lost history of a Midwestern labor town. The daughter of a Wilson & Co. packinghouse worker, Cheri Register vividly recalls the 1959 meat-packers' strike that devastated and divided her hometown. Haunted by memories of her confused coming-of-age in the midst of the strike, she embarks on historical research through newspaper items, state records, company and union archives.

Where no written account exists, she conducts interviews of participants on both sides of the strike - all in an effort to understand when the rift between the company and its workers began and why it ran so deep.".

"The more she probes, the more she finds that she can no longer divide labor issues into the simplified terms of her youth. As part of the first generation of her family to attend college, much less attain a Ph.D., Register struggles to acknowledge such complexities without dishonoring her past.

Her journey reflects the inner conflict felt by a generation propelled into the middle class by post-War prosperity, people like herself who feel "caught between the blue-collar values of the communities we left behind and our new status as the 'rich' people we used to scoff at.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97) and index.
Originally published: The Sioux Uprising of 1862. 2nd ed. 1976, in series: Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society.
"Minnesota's other civil war"--Cover.