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Woodruff, G. H. Fifty Years Ago: or, Gleanings Respecting the History of Northern Illinois a Few Years Previous to, and During the Black Hawk War . Joliet, IL: Joliet Republic and Sun Print, 1883. [format: book], [genre: narrative]. Permission: Newberry Library
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Introductory

Pontiac

Shabbonee

Tecumseh

Food for the Novelist

Cass and the Winnebago War

Big Foot

Alarm at Chicago. Col. Hubbard to the Rescue

Father Walker

Mission Established on the Fox

Settlements Fifty Years Ago

Native Occupants

Our Purpose

Roving Hostiles

The War in Brief

Notables in the War

Shabbonee and Black Hawk

Shabbonee Gives Warning

Gerty and his Band of Devils

First Victims--James Sample and Wife

Indian Creek Massacre

Why They Were Spared, and Their Subsequent History

Whisky and Tobacco

Fate of Payne--Another Victim

On the Dupage

Fort Payne--Another Victim

Yankee and Hickory Settlements

At Chicago

Arrival of General Scott and the Cholera

Earliest War Record of Will County

The Last of Sabbonee

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