Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter vi. Murder of twenty-eight Menominies by the Foxes of Black Hawk'i band--Naopope's visit to Maiden--Black Hawk recrosses the Mississippl--General Atkinson orders him to return--Stitlman's attack--Defeated by Black Hawk--His white flag fired upon--He sends out war parties upon the frontier--Attack upon Fort Buffalo--General Dodge's battle on the Wisconsin--Black Hawk and his band leave tha Four Lakes and fly to the Mississippi--Pursued by General Atkinson--Black Hawk's flag of truce fired upon by the Captain of the Warrior--Twenty-three Indians killed. Black Hawk and his band were not long upon the west side of the Mississippi, before new difficulties arose, calculaled to disturb the harmony which it was hoped the treaty of the 30th of June, had established between them and the United States. The period of their removal to the west side ot the Mississippi, was too late in the season to enable them to plant com and beans a second time; and before autumn was over they were without provisions. Some of them, one night, recrossed the river to steal roasting-ears from their own fields, --4o quote the language of Black Hawk, --and were shot at by the whites, who made loud com-. plaints of this depredation. They, in turn, were highly exasperated at having been fired upon for attempting to carry off the corn which they had raised, and which they insisted, belonged to them. Shortly after this, a party of Foxes, belonging, it is believed, to Black Hawk's band, went up the Mississippi, to Prairie des Chiens, to avenge the murder of some of their tribe, which had been committed in the summer of 1S30, by a party of 143 t the Menominies and Sioux. The Foxes attacked the camp of the Menominies and kiUed twentyeight of them. The authorities at.
