"In Uprising, Dean Urdahl has crafted a story about Min-nesota's 'war
within a war' in the Minnesota River Valley during the autumn of 1862.
His saga is enriched by unfolding . . . on an even broader background
beginning with the bloody battle of Shiloh in the spring of 1862 and
carrying his main character, Nathan Thomas, from there to Minnesota
where he participates in an extraordinary number of adventures during
the six-week ethnic earthquake variously known as the Sioux Uprising,
the Dakota Conflict, and the Dakota War. In casting Nathan as his
central figure and relating him to the two theaters of conflict during
the great battles of Second Manassas, Antietam, Corinth, and others in
the East . . . he adds meaning and depth to the power of his story.
Steeped in the history and lore of the area in which he lives and knows
well, Urdahl has given us an absorbing story about human tragedy,
heroism, and survival by ordinary folks on a grand scale during a clash
of cultures whose legacy still lives with us today." -Russell Fridley,
Past executive director of the Minnesota Historical Society