Project Gutenberg 2025-08-07 Public domain in the USA. 175 Eastlick, L. (Lavina) 1833 1923 Eastlick, Lavina Thrilling incidents of the Indian war of 1862 : $b being a personal narrative of the outrages and horrors witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota $aMinneapolis, MN :$bAtlas Steam Press Printing Company, $c1864. Carol Brown, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Yale University Library) "Thrilling incidents of the Indian war of 1862 : being a personal narrative of…" by Mrs. L. Eastlick is a first-person historical account written in the mid-19th century. It recounts a Minnesota settler’s ordeal during the Dakota War, focusing on the Lake Shetek attacks, her desperate flight, and the devastation visited on her family and neighbors. The work aims both to bear witness to what she saw and to solicit sympathy and support as she struggles to rebuild after the catastrophe. The opening of the narrative sets out the author’s purpose and need, then follows her family’s westward move to Lake Shetek, early cordial contacts with nearby Dakota, and the sudden eruption of violence. As the settlers attempt to flee together, they are overtaken on the prairie; she is wounded, her husband is killed, and children and neighbors are slain or taken, while she hides and then wanders injured for days. She eventually reconnects with survivors, learns that her son Merton has carried the baby Johnny many miles, and, with the help of a passing mail carrier, reaches an abandoned farm where they hide until a small detachment rescues them and takes them to New Ulm. There she receives hospital care and aid from soldiers and townspeople. The excerpt closes with her efforts to obtain official passes and assistance from state authorities to continue eastward to friends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15494512 20250224181013eastlick 1864 US Reading ease score: 85.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Dakota Indians -- Wars -- 1862-1865 E011 Text Category: Biographies Category: History - American Category: History - Warfare 149566 2025-09-30T08:36:13.003294 text/html 125099 2025-08-07T19:15:08 text/html 228116 2025-09-30T08:36:17.278278 application/epub+zip 228511 2025-09-30T08:36:15.045284 application/epub+zip 228511 2025-09-30T08:36:13.539326 application/epub+zip 765029 2025-09-30T08:36:19.041350 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 753788 2025-09-30T08:36:16.733227 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140486 2025-09-30T08:36:12.846290 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 120452 2025-08-07T19:15:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15994 2025-09-30T08:36:20.291301 application/rdf+xml 14252 2025-09-30T08:36:14.570316 image/jpeg 2346 2025-09-30T08:36:14.387339 image/jpeg 1611372 2025-09-30T08:36:13.037256 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog