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Oquawka IL: J. B. Patterson - Continental Printing Co. Very Good. 1882. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 208 pages; Howes P-120 Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, (1767 – 1838) was a band leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States. Although he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief. Black Hawk earned his status as a war chief or captain by his actions: leading raiding and war parties as a young man, and leading a band of Sauk warriors during the Black Hawk War of 1832. During the War of 1812, Black Hawk had fought on the side of the British against the U.S., hoping to push white American settlers away from Sauk territory. Later he led a band of Sauk and Fox warriors, known as the British Band, against European-American settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War. After the war, he was captured by U.S. forces and taken to the… Read More

Good. Good only good, loose boards, lacking spine strip, in no dustjacket, Cooperstown, 1842. 12mo, 165 pp. Contents good with foxing and tanning, 1st ed. first printing . Spine loose, no reader, remainder, or ex-library marks. edgewear . Pages inside and illus are nice.