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The Black Hawk War of 1832

Important Links 

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The surrender of Black Hawk
The Sac and Fox Nation, Official Site of the Meskwaki Nation, Tama, Iowa. 

The Sac and Fox of Oklahoma. 

Hauberg Museum, Rock Island, IL. Black Hawk State Historic Site. 

Ft. Crawford Museum, Prairie du Chien, WI. 

Historic Indian Agency House, Portage, WI.
 


Further Reading 

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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. 

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