The Dakota Conflict (The Sioux 'Uprising' of 1862) [related links]
Gary C. Anderson and Alan Woolworth, eds., Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 (1988) -- best source of the Dakota memories of the conflict.
Kenneth Carley, The Sioux Uprising of 1862 (1976) -- a new edition of Carley's 1961 work which provides a good narrative of the events in 1862.
Roy P. Johnson, The Siege at Fort Abercrombie (1957) -- a good, short narrative of the military action in the western part of Minnesota during the Dakota conflict.
Chester Oehler, The Great Sioux Uprising (1959) -- a good narrative that tries to balance both sides of the conflict.
Dewitt Clinton Poole, Among the Sioux in Dakota: Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent, 1869-70 (1881) -- reprinted in 1988, this account should be used with some care but provides some insights into Sioux-government relations after the War of 1862.
Marion P. Satterlee, "Narratives of the Sioux War," in Volume 15 of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (1915) -- includes reminiscences of settlers and soldiers who fought in the battles in southern Minnesota.
Duane P. Schultz, Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 (1992) -- a book that provides much more detail on the Sioux side of the story than can be found in earlier works.
Wamditanka, "The Sioux Story of the War: Chief Big Eagle's Story of the Sioux Outbreak of 1862," in volume 6 of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (1894) -- one of the best sources for the Sioux views of the Dakota conflict.