First Edition 1838 Account of the Black Hawk War: “Have we not more frequently met [the Indians] in bad faith, than in a Christian spirit?”
DRAKE, Benjamin. The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: With Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War. Cincinnati: George Conclin: 1838. First Edition. Publisher’s original dark green cloth. Includes illustrated engraving of “Wabokieshiek, the Prophet” on page 169. Duodecimo. 252pp. A sympathetic account.....