Block house at Ft. Crawford, Prairie du Chien, WI.
Primary Documents:
Black Hawk. Black Hawk: An Autobiography. Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy, 1833. Reprint, New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
Thayer, Crawford B., ed. Hunting a Shadow: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832. Menasha, WI: Banta Press, 1981.
Thayer, Crawford B., ed. The Battle of Wisconsin Heights: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832. Menasha, WI: Banta Press, 1983.
Thayer, Crawford B., ed. Massacre at Bad Axe: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832. Menasha, WI: Banta Press, 1984.
Secondary Documents:
Axtell, James, and William C. Sturtevant. "The Unkindest Cut, or, Who Invented Scalping?" William and Mary Quarterly 37 (July 1980): 451-72.
Eby, Cecil. "That Disgraceful Affair":The Black Hawk War. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1973.
Hall, John W. Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Jung, Patrick J. The Black Hawk war of 1832. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Nichols, Roger L. General Henry Atkinson: A Western Military Career. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
Prucha, Francis Paul. Broadax & Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1953.
Trask, Kerry. Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006.