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03022aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 87CDB2F0300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 201013s2021 scua 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781467146098 020 $a 1467146099 035 $a (OCoLC)1200027846 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d GO9 $d OCLCF $d WIH $d OCLCO $d KAY $d SILO 050 4 $a E83.83 $b .S86 2021 100 1 $a Strand, Ben, $e author. 245 12 $a A Black Hawk war guide : $b landmarks, battlefields, museums, & firsthand accounts / $c Ben Strand ; foreword by Kealan Hamilton-Youngbird. 246 31 $a Black Hawk war guide : $b landmarks, battlefields, museums, and firsthand accounts 264 1 $a Charleston, SC : $b The History Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 205 pages : $b black and white illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 505 00 $t About the author $r Kealan Hamilton-Youngbird -- $t Preface -- $t Acknowledgements -- $t Introduction -- $t First Nations of the Old Northwest Territory -- $t President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- $t The Lead Rush : Gray Gold in the Midwest -- $t Frontier Forts, Indian Agents and Agencies -- $t The Northwest Territory Wilderness -- $t Effigy and Conical Mounds -- $t Rivers and Waterways -- $t Geographic Mounds and High Points -- $t Bike Paths, the Old Military Road and Roadside Markers -- $t Saukenuk and Rock Island -- $t A White Flag and the Conflict Begins -- $t Abraham Lincoln's Service in the Black Hawk War -- $t The Trembling Lands to the Four Lakes -- $t Lead Region Raids -- $t Chicaog and Cholera: Winfield Scot Takes Command -- $t Batle of Wisconsin Heights -- $t Massacre at the Bad Axe: from Sauk Prairie to De Soto, Wisconsin -- $t Black Hawk's Capture and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin -- $t Black Hawkiana and Black Hawk's Tour of America -- $t Jefferson Finis Davis and Fort Monroe, Virginia -- $t Appendix -- $t About the author 520 $a 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 signifigance through beautiful natural scenery. It is also an amazing covergence 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. --Back cover. 610 10 $a Illinois. $b Militia $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Black Hawk War, 1832. $9 76128 650 0 $a Indians of North America. $9 9731 700 1 $a Hamilton-Youngbird, Kealan, $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 2 952 $l FMPC224 $d 20230202011546.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221004015738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=87CDB2F0300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search