Credit: Thomas Miller's 1987 "Winter Warrior" sculpture outside the Blue Earth County Library in Mankato, Minnesota. It, and the county's Reconciliation Memorial across the street, keep before the public the story of the largest mass execution in U.S. history when 38 Dakota Indians were hanged here by the government during the U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862. (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
