Black Hawk War Guide, A: Landmarks, Battlefields, Museums & Firsthand Accounts

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

The Black Hawk War was the final conflict east of the Mississippi River between American Indian communities and the United States regular troops and militia. Exploring the museums, wayside markers and parks relating to that struggle is not just a journey of historic significance through beautiful natural scenery. It is also an amazing convergence of legendary personalities, from Abraham Lincoln to Jefferson Davis. Follow the fallout of the war from the Quad Cities on the Illinois/Iowa border, through the "Trembling Lands" along the Kettle Morraine and into the Driftless Area of southern Wisconsin. Pairing local insight with big-picture perspective, Ben Strand charts an overlooked quadrant of America's frontier heritage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467146098
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	02/08/2021
Series:	Military
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	666,470
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ben Strand hails from the Uplands of southwestern Wisconsin. He received his education while serving as a busboy at the Thym's Supper Club in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, and the Old Mexico Grill in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With degrees from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from Goddard College in Vermont, he has a long-standing commitment to the Wisconsin Idea and the Green Mountain Ideal. As a lifelong Cubs fan, he smartly swore off the lovable losers when they removed the communal urinals from Wrigley Field, which just happened to be the year before they ruined a perfectly honorable losing streak. He currently makes his home with his family and school-age children in the Driftless region of Wisconsin. After many years of avid prickly ash pruning, he has forged a truce with this native bush and is now focused on removing the twenty-first-century scourge of burdock, wild parsnips and multiflora rose. Invitations and admonitions can be directed to [e-mail].

Table of Contents

Foreword Kealan Hamilton-Youngbird 5

Preface 11

Acknowledgements 13

Introduction 15

First Nations of the Old Northwest Territory 19

President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 23

The Lead Rush: Gray Gold in the Midwest 33

Frontier Forts, Indian Agents and Agencies 44

The Northwest Territory Wilderness 51

Effigy and Conical Mounds 55

Rivers and Waterways 59

Geographic Mounds and High Points 63

Bike Paths, the Old Military Road and Roadside Markers 68

Saukenuk and Rock Island 73

A White Flag and the Conflict Begins 82

Abraham Lincoln's Service in the Black Hawk War 87

The Trembling Lands to the Four Lakes: From Fort Atkinson to Madison 105

Lead Region Raids 119

Chicago and Cholera: Winfield Scott Takes Command 126

Battle of Wisconsin Heights 133

Massacre at the Bad Axe: From Sauk Prairie to De Soto, Wisconsin 137

Black Hawk's Capture and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin 146

Black Hawkiana and Black Hawk's Tour of America 154

Jefferson Finis Davis and Fort Monroe, Virginia 162

Appendix A Battlefields, American Indian Communities, Villages, Forts 169

Appendix B Museums, Parks and Historic Sites 171

Appendix C Black Hawk War Timelines 173

Appendix D Historic Markers and Plaques 181

Resources and Further Reading 199

Index 201

About the Author 207