Volume
VI, the final volume, of The Winning of America (Narratives of
America) Series. This volume of the narrative histories chronicles
the rise of the Sac chieftain named Makataimeshekiakiak, better
known as Black Hawk, who tried to resist being displaced by the
encroaching Americans in the area of northern Illinois and southern
Wisconsin. He rallied the Winnebagoes, Menominees, Chippewas and
Mandans to make a stand with him against the Americans but they
are driven across the Mississippi. When they return for their crops
in northwestern Illinois, it is taken by the whites as an invasion
and an army is assembled under General Edward Atkinson -- in whose
companies are such men as Zachery Taylor, Abraham Lincoln and other
notables. The Black Hawk War results and as the army pursues, Black
Hawk retreats up the Rock River to Lake Koshkenong in southeastern
Wisconsin, then overland to the Mississippi, where his force is
eventually engaged in the Battle of Bad Axe, in which steamships
became a military machine for the first time. Originally published
in 1988 in hardcover by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA, and
in paperback by Bantam in 1989. Having gone out of print after 8
years in hardcover and 11 years in paperback by Bantam, NYC, this
volume and the other five volumes in The Winning of America (Narratives
of America) are presently being reprinted by The Jesse Stuart
Foundation, Ashland, Kentucky.
Volume
VI, the final volume, of The Winning of America (Narratives of
America) Series. This volume of the narrative histories chronicles
the rise of the Sac chieftain named Makataimeshekiakiak, better
known as Black Hawk, who tried to resist being displaced by the
encroaching Americans in the area of northern Illinois and southern
Wisconsin. He rallied the Winnebagoes, Menominees, Chippewas and
Mandans to make a stand with him against the Americans but they
are driven across the Mississippi. When they return for their crops
in northwestern Illinois, it is taken by the whites as an invasion
and an army is assembled under General Edward Atkinson -- in whose
companies are such men as Zachery Taylor, Abraham Lincoln and other
notables. The Black Hawk War results and as the army pursues, Black
Hawk retreats up the Rock River to Lake Koshkenong in southeastern
Wisconsin, then overland to the Mississippi, where his force is
eventually engaged in the Battle of Bad Axe, in which steamships
became a military machine for the first time. Originally published
in 1988 in hardcover by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA, and
in paperback by Bantam in 1989. Having gone out of print after 8
years in hardcover and 11 years in paperback by Bantam, NYC, this
volume and the other five volumes in The Winning of America (Narratives
of America) are presently being reprinted by The Jesse Stuart
Foundation, Ashland, Kentucky.