| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

The Black Hawk War of 1832. Volume 10 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series. By Patrick J. Jung. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii + 275 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

As the white population of the Illinois-Wisconsin-Iowa borderlands grew in the 1830s, these newcomers attempted to drive out the Indian inhabitants by treaty negotiation or force. The latter occurred notably in a war in which the British Band, a minority faction within the Sauk and Fox tribes led by Black Hawk, desperately attempted to retain their homes east of the Mississippi River. These lands had already been sold in treaties little-understood by most tribal members. The war culminated in a bedraggled, but symbolically important, defeat and retreat in the summer of 1832; once begun, the Americans insisted on continuing the fight even after Black Hawk tried to surrender. This war paved the way for land cessions by various area tribes. In telling the story, Patrick Jung hopes to expand the perspective of this oft-studied event by considering the role of intertribal warfare, and to present a case study of how Indian wars developed and were conducted in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century "trans-Appalachian West" (p. 4).

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