Foreword / Kealan Hamilton-Youngbird
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
First Nations of the Old Northwest Territory
President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830
The Lead Rush : Gray Gold in the Midwest
Frontier Forts, Indian Agents and Agencies
The Northwest Territory Wilderness
Effigy and Conical Mounds
Rivers and Waterways
Geographic Mounds and High Points
Bike Paths, the Old Military Road and Roadside Markers
Saukenuk and Rock Island
A White Flag and the Conflict Begins
Abraham Lincoln's Service in the Black Hawk War
The Trembling Lands to the Four Lakes
Lead Region Raids
Chicaog and Cholera: Winfield Scot Takes Command
Batle of Wisconsin Heights
Massacre at the Bad Axe: from Sauk Prairie to De Soto, Wisconsin
Black Hawk's Capture and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Black Hawkiana and Black Hawk's Tour of America
Jefferson Finis Davis and Fort Monroe, Virginia
Appendix
About the author