Andrew Myrick
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Andrew Jackson Myrick was an Indian agent, fur trader, and merchant who operated trading posts in southwest Minnesota at two Native American agencies serving the Dakota near the Minnesota River.
Myrick c. 1860
Dakota War of 1862
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The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict
Andrew Myrick
…exchange for the traders extending credit to the Dakota. On August 18, 1862 Chief Little Crow led his warriors against U.S. settlements, beginning the Dakota War of 1862. Myrick was killed on the first day at the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency, where Dakota warriors took revenge at the agency for its refusal to sell…
Attack on New Ulm Anton Gag, 1904
This photograph is titled "People escaping from the Indian massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at dinner on a prairie". It is the right half of a stereograph published by Whitney's Gallery, St. Paul, Minn. This photo is actually "Mixed Bloods" who were rescued by non-hostile Dakota. The girl in the foreground wrapped in the striped blanket is Elise Robertson, the sister of Thomas Robertson, a mixed blood who acted as an intermediary between the hostile and non hostile Dakota and the whites.
"The siege of New Ulm, Minnesota" by Henry August Schwabe
Fort Ridgely burning (1890 oil painting)