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SKETCH OF KEOKUK.
Pages 231 - 247.....Birth and Early Life--Not a Hereditary Chief--Daring Exploits--Promotion--Declines to Join Black Hawk against the Whites--Addresses his People--Dictates a Letter from the Raccoon Fork of the Des Moines--His Lodge at Iowaville--Death of his Son--Village at Sugar Creek--Receives a Message from the Mormon Prophet--Attends a Regal Conference at Nauvoo--Replies to a Speech of Joseph Smith--Feud with the "Hard Fish Band" --Wounded--Charged with Fraud --Oration on the Death of President Harrison--Secures the Favor of Gov. Chambers--Keokuk as an Orator--His Interpreters--Persona1 Character--Removal to Kansas--Death.
MINOR SAC AND FOX CHIEFS AND BRAVES.
Pages 248-280.....Pashepaho--Wapello--Appanoose--Poweshiek--
Taimah--Wishecomaque--Kishkekosh--Wabokieshiek--Neopope--Quashquame-- Peahmuska--Wapashashiek--Pasishamone--List of Names of Sac and Fox Chiefs and Braves.
SIDOMINADOTAH AND HIS BAND.
Pages 281 - 299.....Band of Outlaws--Wars with other Tribes--Sidominadotah--Inkpadutah--Titonka--Ishtahabah-- Umpashotah--Wahkonsah--Kasominee Indian Battles in Northern Iowa--Battle on Raccoon River--Neswage, a Delaware Chief--Victory of Sacs and Foxes over the Sioux--Battle near Algona--Government Surveyors Robbed--Outrages upon Settlers --Fort Dodge Established--Outrages on Boyer River--Removal of Troops from Fort Dodge--Indians Annoy the Settlers--Troubles at Clear Lake--The "Grindstone War''--Whites Organize for Defense --Alarm at "Mayne's Grove'' and "Beaver Grove"--Henry Lott--His Troubles with the Indians--Death of Lott's Son--Expedition Against the Indians--Indian Allies--Death of Lott's Wife--Lott in Humboldt County--Murders Sidominadotah and Family--Escapes--Inquest at the Scene of the Tragedy.
THE MASSACRE OF THE LAKES.
Pages 300 - 317.....White Settlements in Northern Iowa--Roving Bands of Indians--Winter of 1856-7--Troubles at Smithland--Outrages in Cherokee and Clay Counties--Massacre at the Lakes and at Springfield--Names of Victims--Alarm on the Frontier--Volunteers for Defense--Expedition under Major Williams--The March through Snow-banks--Sufferings of the Volunteers--Burial of the Victims --Rescue of the Springfield Survivors--Death of Captain Johnston and William Burkholder--Details of the Massacre--Four Women Captured --Murder of Two of the Captives--Rescue of Mrs. Marble and Miss Gardner--Return to St. Paul--Incidents.
Contents, page 14 (Chapters 18, 19, 20)
Contents, page 15 (Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24)
Contents, page 16 ( Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 1 and 2)
Contents, page 17 (Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 3, 4, 5)
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Introductory Page|
Portrait of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH (Black Hawk)|
Title Page|
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Preface (pages 3 - 6)|
Illustrations (page 7)
Contents, page 9 (Chapters 1, 2)
Contents, page 10 (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6)
Contents, page 11 (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10)
Contents, page 12 (Chapters 11, 12, 13)
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