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Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837. Keokuk, Sauk chief; painting by J.O. Lewis done at the signing of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1825. Battle sites and key events in the Black Hawk War. Abraham Lincoln Masscre of Bad Axe, 1832.
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Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Keokuk, Sauk chief; painting by J.O. Lewis done at the signing of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1825.
Battle sites and key events in the Black Hawk War.
Abraham Lincoln
Masscre of Bad Axe, 1832.
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Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Black Hawk
Sauk and Fox leader
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
president of United States
Lewis Cass, engraving by W.G. Jackman after a photograph by Sutton & Bro.
Lewis Cass
American politician

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