 | Black Hawk (Sauk chief) - Black Hawk War, 1832 - 1834 - 172 pages
...express presented us with tobacco, pipes and wampum. The news run through our camp like fire in the prairie. Our lodges were soon taken down, and all...our remaining at peace — having been forced into WAR by being DECEIVED ! Our party were not long in getting to Rock Island. When we came in sight, and... | |
 | Black Hawk (Sauk chief) - Black Hawk War, 1832 - 1834 - 174 pages
...tobacco, pipes and wampum. The news run through our camp like fire in the prairie. Our lodges were ^oon taken down, and all started for Rock Island. Here ended all hopes of our remaining at peace—having been forced into WAR by being DECEIVED ! Our party were not long in getting to Rock... | |
 | William Rudolph Smith - Wisconsin - 1854 - 444 pages
...express presented us with tobacco, pipes, and wampum. " The news ran through our camp like fire in the prairie. Our lodges were soon taken down, and all...of our remaining at peace, having been forced into war by being deceived. " Our party were not long in getting to Rock Island. When we came in sight and... | |
 | William Rudolph Smith - Wisconsin - 1854 - 458 pages
...express presented us with tobacco, pipes, and wampum. " The news ran through our camp like fire in the prairie. Our lodges were soon taken down, and all...of our remaining at peace, having been forced into war by being deceived. " Our party were not long in getting to Rock Island. When we came in sight and... | |
 | William Smith Bryan, Robert Rose - Missouri - 1876 - 574 pages
...express presented us with tobacco, pipes and wampum. The news ran through our camp like fire in the prairie. Our lodges were soon taken down, and all...of our remaining at peace, having been forced into war by being deceived. Our party was not long in getting to Rock Island. When we came in sight and... | |
 | Benton County (Iowa) - 1878 - 648 pages
...British traders would not be permitted to come on the Mississippi to furnish us with goods, but that we should be supplied with an American trader. Our chiefs...joined the British, who flattered him, styled him " Gen. Black Hawk," decked him with medals, excited his jealousies against the Americans, and armed... | |
 | Cedar County (Iowa) - 1878 - 736 pages
...British traders would not be permitted to come on the Mississippi to furnish us with goods, but that we should be supplied with an American trader. Our chiefs...joined the British, who flattered him, styled him " Gen. Black Hawk," decked him with medals, excited his jealousies against the Americans, and armed... | |
 | Iowa - 1878 - 842 pages
...British traders would not he permitted to come on the Mississippi to furnish us with goods, but that we should be supplied with an American trader. Our chiefs...joined the British, who flattered him, styled him " Gen. Black Hawk," decked him with medals, excited his jealousies against the Americans, and armed... | |
 | Monroe County (Iowa) - 1878 - 496 pages
...British traders would not be permitted to come on the Mississippi to furnish us with goods, but that we should be supplied with an American trader. Our chiefs...war by being deceived." He joined the British, who nattered him, styled him " Gen. Black Hawk," decked him with medals, excited his jealousies against... | |
 | Delaware County (Iowa) - 1878 - 696 pages
...credit, as the British traders had done." Black Hawk seems to have accepted of this proposition, and lie and his people were very much pleased. Acting in good...joined the British, who flattered him, styled him " Gen. Black Hawk," decked him with medals, excited his jealousies against the Americans, and armed... | |
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slept that night; all was gloom and discontent. In the morning, a canoe was seen ascending the river ; it soon arrived, bearing an express, who brought intelligence that a British trader had landed at Rock Island with two boats loaded with goods, and... 
