Birch Choulie

In 1862 the bloody drama of the Indian Massacre was enacted in the Minnesota Valley, and although many accounts of the massacre have been written, no pen has been able adequately to describe or portray the awful experience endured by the defenseless settlers during those dark days." These were the words of Minnesota newspaper editor on the sixty-fourth anniversary of the battle of Birch Coulie.

Obscured by the cataclysm of the Civil War, the pathos of the Minnesota Indian massacre was not adequately recorded until now. But the full, authentic story is dramatized in these pages. Bernard Francis Ederer, reared on a farm within view of the Birch Coulie battlefield, he collected his data there, and with the skill of the experienced writer of Indian and pioneer tales, he has brought the saga of the brave pioneers of Minnesota out of obscurity and has placed it in its proper historical perspective.

Relating exciting, suspenseful, history making events, Birch Coulie also tells the human story of the brave men and the loyal women who loved them. Written with compassion and knowledge in forceful narrative, Birch Coulie fills a gap in the literature of America's pioneer wars against the Indians