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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world 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. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life Author: Frank Everett Stevens Release date: July 9, 2015 [eBook #49402] Most recently updated: October 24, 2024 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49402 Credits: Produced by KD Weeks, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK HAWK WAR INCLUDING A REVIEW OF BLACK HAWK'S LIFE *** This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Minor errors or inconsistencies in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any other textual issues encountered during its preparation. Footnotes have been resequenced to be unique, and were moved to the end of the chapter or section. Any references to those notes in the text have been amended as well. [Illustration: Yours faithfully Frank E. Stevens] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BLACK HAWK WAR INCLUDING A REVIEW OF BLACK HAWK’S LIFE _Illustrated with upward of three hundred rare and interesting portraits and views_ BY FRANK E. STEVENS FRANK E. STEVENS 1205 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLDG. CHICAGO . . ILLINOIS 1903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1903, by FRANK E. STEVENS in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEAR MOTHER– This book represents long years of patient toil from which a corresponding return is not expected; it has been a labor of love. To whom, then, should it be dedicated but yourself, who spent so many toilsome years to rear its author, who may never repay a fraction of the debt he owes you. F.E.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Line of March] ------------------------------------------------------------------------