Black Hawk and the War of 1832 / Bowes, John P.

Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.

Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.