26, 1862 — the largest single-day mass execution in U.S. history. Horses whinnied and galloped down Riverfront Drive as a crowd cheered on the riders. The original Dakota 38+2 Wokiksuye ...
The riders had traveled hundreds of miles to honor the Dakota men executed in one of the ugliest chapters in American history: a mass hanging in Mankato in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of ...