| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

The Black Hawk War of 1832. By Patrick J. Jung. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 275 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3811-4.)

Abraham Lincoln, a captain of militia in the Black Hawk War, seemingly trivialized the campaign when he recalled that he never encountered one Indian enemy during the offensive, but he "had a good many bloody struggles with the musquetoes" (p. 79). In truth, the events associated with that conflict held major consequences for Indian nations of the western Great Lakes and for the settlers and government that coveted their rich agricultural lands. For the Sauk and their allies the Mesquakie (Fox), the war culminated in defeat, near annihilation of the large encampment at Bad Axe, Wisconsin, and eventual removal to Kansas and Indian Territory. Their collective fate paralleled the experiences of many other tribes indigenous to the prairie regions east of the Mississippi River, tribes that had been powerful only three decades earlier.

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