This sketch appeared in Harper''s Weekly on January 17, 1863, which was 22 days after this large execution occurred in Mankato, MN. Read about this event in the concluding chapter of "The Revenge of Little Crow."
When I wrote ths book in 2000, I was concerned about children having access to the Internet and to chat rooms where "you can be anyone you want." Here we are many years later and the situation with children talking freely to stangers on the Internet