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Turning Seventy, Rowan Cahill
Turning Seventy, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
The author's ruminations on the occasion of him reaching the age of 70 years old.
Little War On The Prairie: An Auto-Critique, John Biewen
Little War On The Prairie: An Auto-Critique, John Biewen
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Using RadioDoc Review’s suggested criteria for evaluating a radio documentary, John Biewen delivers an auto-critique of his own program, Little War on the Prairie. It tells the story of the U.S.-Dakota War, a bloody Plains Indian war that broke out in the summer of 1862 in southern Minnesota. That six-week conflict took the lives of hundreds of people, perhaps a thousand, a larger death toll than in the better-known bloodlettings at Little Big Horn or Wounded Knee. Most of the dead were white settlers, though the U.S. government’s reprisals in the aftermath of the war killed up to several …