Minnesota-based author/historian John ‘Jack’ Koblas gave a slide presentation at the Northfield Historical Society last night on Let them Eat Grass, his three-volume history of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Author John Koblas and his ‘Let Them Eat Grass’ trilogy of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
By Griff Wigley
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