DAKOTA WAR WHOOP or - Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota by McConkey, Harriet E. Bishop

Chicago, 1965, Lakeside Press, # 63 in the Lakeside Classics series. VG condition, original blue cloth with gilt top page edges, 4 1/2 x 7, xxxiv, 395 pages, illus, map.--------------------- A detailed contemporary account of the great Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1862 and the campaign of 1863 that followed. -------------------------The Lakeside Press Classics series was started in 1903 by Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of RR Donnelley & Sons Company and son of the founder. Thomas E. Donnelley believed that a simple book, dignified and well designed, would be an appropriate holiday gift. In the introduction to the first Lakeside Press Classics, he wrote, "If, in a modest way this volume conveys the idea that machine-made books are not a crime against art, and that books may be plain but good, and good though not costly, its mission has been accomplished".The basic format of the Lakeside Press Classics has remained the same for more than 100 years, testifying to the sound design of the first volume. Every 25 years the cover material is changed and type style adjusted to keep pace with current developments in fine book making. Production methods are updated as book manufacturing improvements are introduced. Current editions use electronic page composition, digital scanning and state-of-the-art computer-to-plate technologies.