01683cam a2200229 4500 388794738 TxAuBib 20090122120000.0 010530s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u (OCoLC)41949466 TxAuBib Parsons, John W. Inkpaduta and the Sioux Indians. MN : Livewire Printing Company, 1998. 208 p. : ill. This book is not a rehash of the Spirit Lake Massacre. It is more of an assembly of observations that better describes some of the remote characteristics of the Indian Wars and degradation of the Sioux Nation. It may seem strange to interpret the Spirit Lake Massacre of 1857, probably the saddest event in the whole of Iowa history, as merely an incident in the development of a frontier state. This, however, is just what it was. The known facts are quite simple. Bold- some would say foolish or unreasonable- men dared to push far beyond the bounds of populated settlements, taking their families with them, in that attitude of mixed daring, hardwood, and foolhardiness whites the ever-present theme in that attitude of the opening up of our frontier. Where sober fact leaves off, the historian must leave to the poet or novelists the proper description of the motives and personal qualities of people who persist in defying the ordinary laws of security, abandoning the comforts of a fixed abode in favor of a conquest of the unknown. 20010530. Native Americans Iowa. Native Americans History. Iowa History. Spirit Lake Massacre.