User:Urve/Lynching of Alec Coudotte, Philip Ireland, and Paul Holy Track

On November 14, 1897, three Native American men—Alec Coudotte, Philip Ireland, and Paul Holy Track—were lynched.

Lynching
Because they were held in Bismarck, North Dakota, two men were spared from the mob: Frank Blackhawk and George Defender.

The murder of Coudotte, Ireland, and Holy Track was the only multiple lynching in North Dakota history. They were lynched in Williamsport, North Dakota, then the seat of Emmons County, just across the Missouri River from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.