Great Indian Chief of the West - Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

Project Gutenberg's Great Indian Chief of the West, by Benjamin Drake This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk Author: Benjamin Drake Release Date: April 30, 2006 [EBook #18290] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT INDIAN CHIEF OF THE WEST *** Produced by richyfourtytwo Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net BLACK HAWK. THE GREAT INDIAN CHIEF OF THE WEST: OR, LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF BLACK HAWK. CINCINNATI: APPLEGATE & COMPANY 43 MAIN STREET. 1854. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, BY GEORGE CONCLIN, In the Clerk's Office of the District of Ohio. Transcriber's Note: There are inconsistencies in the Index layout and in the spelling of tribal names. These have been left as originally printed. PREFACE In presenting to the public the life and adventures of Black Hawk, some account of the Sac and Fox Indians—of Keokuk, their distinguished chief—and of the causes which led to the late contest between these tribes and the United States, was necessarily involved.