In April 1832, despite a treaty signed in 1804, Black Hawk led about 1,000 Sauk and Fox people back to northern Illinois. Black Hawk hoped to forge a military alliance with the Winnebago and other ...

On August 1-2 of that year, the final confrontation of the Black Hawk War took place just south of the Bad Axe River in the western region of modern day Wisconsin.… On this date in 1832, ...

Amateur historian John Gorentz will discuss the little-known Black Hawk War during a free presentation from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute on Sunday, March 8. The title of the ...

BLACK HAWK (1767-3 Oct. 1838) was an American Indian chief of the Sauk, and leader of the Black Hawk War against the U.S. in 1832. Born in a Sauk village on Rock River, Ill., near the present day city ...

On Sept. 2, 1832, the Black Hawk War ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott and Sac and Fox leaders signed a treaty forcing the tribe to cede 6 million acres of land west of the Mississippi River and ...

THE BLACK HAWK WAR.; Abraham Lincoln, ... "In 1832 JOHN DIXON kept the ferry across Rock River, and the latch-string of his hospitable home was never drawn in against the stranger.

On Aug. 27, 1832, Black Hawk and the remainder of his followers surrendered, ending the Black Hawk War. As a result of the war, the Sauk and Meskwaki lost much of their land in Iowa. Legend grows ...

Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America By Kerry A. Trask John Macrae/Holt, 368 pages, $27.50 For most Americans, I suspect, the Civil War stands as the defining event of the 19th Century.

Aug. 1-2 will be the 175th anniversary of the Bad Axe River massacre. This massacre occurred 25 miles south of La Crosse (near the Mississippi) and ended the so-called Black Hawk War of 1832.

The Corpse in the Kitchen examines how racism shaped Illinois before, during, and especially after the Black Hawk War of 1832. Waterman acknowledges that the history he gives is one of settlers, even ...