[jayswin]

I kind of laughed while reading this part...

Sheriff Edouard Richard said those who attended the hanging were satisfied with what they saw.

"Seeing that the Indians are averse to hanging and that all sorts of rumours were afloat amongst them and half breeds about deeds of cruelty that were to accompany the execution, invitations had been tendered to Indian Chiefs to assist at the execution," he wrote, in a report to the government. "Some of them responded to the invitation and declared that it was done in such a way that they could no more object to that mode of execution."

One witness, who had watched several other executions in the United States, also seemed pleased with the spectacle, slapping his thigh and saying, "Boys, it was the prettiest hanging I ever seen."