Product Description: Of all the Native American leaders who attempted to resist the westward expansion of the United States and further white settlement during the 19th century, few fought as long or as hard as Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk in the present-day Midwest...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance that would preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. However, the ensuing war with the United States decimated Black Hawk's band. The conflict has captured the imagination of historians for more than a century, and Patrick J. Jung here re-examines its causes, course, and consequences. Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, Jung focuses on the complex nature of Indian resistance and the role of intertribal conflict in the war.

Discusses the history, policies, and events that precipitated the Black Hawk War in 1932, and profiles the Sauk elder who began the conflict.

A vivid account of the Black Hawk War illuminates the tragic and violent history of frontier America from the perspective of the Native American tribes forced from their ancestral lands to make way for settlers' insatiable need for additional land. Reprint.

Product Description: One of the very few eyewitness accounts of what became known as the Black Hawk War. The author served in the War of 1812 and later, as a surgeon and scout in the militia and published this memoir in 1834, recording material on the background and personality of Black Hawk, relations between the Indians and the settlers, the American military figures involved, and the military events that took place...read more

Relates the events that led to the last great Indian uprising east of the Mississippi River in 1832.

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Relates the events, as recalled by the Sauk Indian chief, Black Hawk, that led to the last great Indian uprising east of the Mississippi River in 1832

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more