47 XI. Transactions of Illinois Historical Society, 1906, p. 313; Memories of Shabona, 165-168; Black Hawk’s Autobiography, 111; Ante, p. 83.
INDEX
- A.
- Adoption of Captives by chiefs, 61
- Agriculture and civilization, 25
- Atkinson, Gen. at Ottawa, 51
- letter to Col. Gratiot, 56
- offers reward, 54
- Auburn, where Elder Horn died, 100
- B.
- Battle of “Stillman’s Run”, 20
- The Pecatonica, 92
- Beloit, Turtle village, 55
- Beouchard, Lieut. Edward, 55
- meeting captives, 79
- Big Fox, camp near, 63
- Black Earth Creek, camp on, 76
- Black Hawk War, 17
- Black Hawk, born at Rock Island, 18
- council of, 18
- fought with English, 1812, 18
- grief of, 19
- love of country, 18
- ordered to move to Iowa, 18
- return to Illinois, 18
- speech of, 18
- second council of, 20
- Black Hawk’s Grove, arrival at, 45
- Black Hawk “Lookout”, camp near, 75
- Black Hawk, picture of as a warrior, 17
- picture of as civilian, 21
- Black Hawk’s village, 26
- Blacksmith, important settler, 25
- Blockhouses, building of, 54
- Brigham, Ebenezer, Indian feast, 82
- Buckwheat as first crop, 25
- Buffalo, herds of, 12
- “Burnt City”, near Ft. Atkinson, Wis., 61
- C.
- Camp on Wisconsin river, 74
- Black Hawk’s Grove, 45, 59
- Black Hawk’s “Lookout”, camp near, 75
- Cold Spring, 61
- Horicon Lake, 63
- Portage, camp near, 70
- Canada, Indian voyages to, 26
- Canoes, where girls entered, 68
- Captives, Indians kill when attacked, 71
- Captivity of Hall girls, 38
- “Carolina”, St. Louis to Beardstown, 94
- Chickens, prairie, 12
- Chippewas, Indians, 16
- Cholera at St. Louis, 93
- Civilization, marriage and agriculture, 25
- Clark, Gov., of Missouri, 93
- Clothes, Indians furnish Hall girls, 62
- Cold Spring, camping at, 61
- Comb, Rachel’s thrown away, 62
- Co-mee, tried to buy wife, 23
- arrest of for murder, 111
- acquittal, 112
- alleged confession of murder, 113
- Country, description of, 9
- D.
- Dam across Indian Creek, 29
- Indians object to, 29
- Indian tears outlet through, 29
- Dancing of Indians, 41, 59, 64
- Davis City, dream of, 28
- Davis, Jefferson, 9
- Davis Settlement, 23
- Davis, Alex., escape of, 32
- Davis, William, sketch of, 25
- children of murdered, 35
- murdered by Indians, 35
- powerful and brave, 28
- whipped Indian with stick, 29
- Davis, Wm., Jr., escape of, 35
- Dedication of State Monument, 105
- Deer, herds of, 12
- Description of country, 9
- Dixon, center of trails, 13
- Dodge, Col., raises troops, 54
- address to Indians, 85
- command at Blue Mounds, 81
- takes hostages, 87
- Drunkenness in Militia, 52
- “Dry Year”, the, 31
- Dunavan, Mrs. A. Miranda, 6, 97, 103
- information given by, 6
- Dunavan, Samuel, married Miss Munson, 97
- picture of, 103
- E.
- Eckles, Hon. James II., U. S. Treasurer, 98
- Eckles, Winnie, married to Judge Landis, 98
- English government pensioned Sacs, 26
- Evidence, best, 6
- F.
- Family history, Munson, 6, 95
- Family history, Horn, 6, 100
- Fire, a prairie, 11
- Flag of Truce, 20, 79
- Flowers, many beautiful, 12, 27
- great growth of, 31
- Forests, trees of, 10
- Fort Defiance, rest at, 78
- Fort Winnebago, Portage, 78
- Fox Indians, 13
- Fox river, description of, 9
- G.
- Galena, meeting of people, 54
- Game, abundance of, 12
- Geology of country, 10
- George, Henry, at work on dam, 32
- shot by Indians, 36
- Gratiot, Capt. Bion, and Indians, 81
- wife of, cultured, 89, 90
- Gratiot, Col. Henry, Indians’ friend, 55
- address to Indians, 84
- Gratiot’s Grove, description of, 89
- H.
- Hair, ceremony of clipping, 68, 70
- cutting locks from captives, 68
- scalp, double meaning of, 70
- Hall girls, as captives, 41-47, 59-65
- adopted by chiefs, 61
- and neighbors’ horses, 39
- at Black Earth Creek, 76, 77
- at Black Hawk’s Grove, 45
- at Blue Mounds, 79-83
- at Cold Spring, 61
- at Fort Defiance, 88
- at Galena, 93
- at Gratiot’s Grove, 88-90
- at Horicon, Lake, 66-67
- at Kishwaukee river, 42-44
- at Morrison’s, 84-88
- at Portage, 70
- at St. Louis, 93
- at White Oak Springs, 90-92
- description of, 7, 8
- dresses given by squaws, 62
- food of captives, 43, 46, 62, 72, 76, 78
- guests of Gov. Clark, 93
- Indians wanted as wives, 23
- kept apart in traveling, 61
- letter from Rev. Horn, 91
- painted by squaws, 60
- popular appellation of, 6
- prayers of, 39
- presents to, 92, 102, 104
- purse collected for, 94
- Rachel exhausted, 42, 98
- religious offerings, 46
- sleeping between squaws, 46
- tiresome traveling, 42, 70, 78
- weeping of, 39, 90
- wept parting squaws, 79
- Hall, Edward, in militia, 79
- Hall, Elizabeth, killed by Indians, 23, 35
- Hall, Greenbury, escape of, 32, 36
- Hall, John W., escape of, 35, 36
- buries massacred whites, 49
- meets sisters, 91
- recruits squadron, 48
- searches for sisters, 49, 50
- statement of, 102
- visits sisters in Nebraska, 102
- Hall, Reason, in Militia, 79
- Hall, Rachel, one of the “Hall girls”, ages of, 23, 98
- death of, 98
- exhausted, 42, 98
- family of, 96, 98
- marriage of, 95
- picture of, 97
- state land gift, 102
- tomb of, 99
- wading Kishwaukee, 42
- Hall, Sylvia, one of the “Hall girls”, ages of, 23, 100
- death of, 100
- fainted at sight of scalp, 43
- family of, 100
- marriage of, 100
- pictures of, 24, 101
- state land gift to, 102
- Hall, William, sketch of, 23
- family of, 23
- hospitality, noted, 24
- shot by Indians, 35
- Hall, Mrs. Wm., massacred, 34-35
- Harney, Gen., U. S. officer, 51
- Harrison, president, 9
- Hearts, human on spears, 60
- Henderson, Hon. John W., escape of, 32, 35
- memorial oration of, 105
- Henderson, John H., settler, 25
- Henderson, Gen. T. J., oration, 105
- Home, longing for, 99, 101
- Horicon Lake, 63
- Horn, Mr. C. L., grandson of Elder, 6
- Horn, Miss Sylvia E., grandchild of Elder, 6
- Horn, Thomas S., son of Elder, 100
- Horn, Elder W. S., sketch of, 99, 101
- marries Sylvia Hall, 100
- picture of, 101
- Horses stolen from settlers, 39
- Howard, Allen, escape of, 32, 35
- I.
- Illinois river, 4, 13
- Indian troubles, 13
- bands attack settlers, 21
- land claims, 13
- marriage custom, 23
- scare, 31
- whipped by Davis, 29
- Indians: Foxes, Sacs, etc., 13
- attack Davis cottage, 33
- attempt to get girls, 69
- carry away Hall girls, 39
- conspiracy suspected, 81
- parting from Hall girls, 88
- refusal to ratify treaty, 16
- taken to Morrison’s, 84
- trial of for murder, 112
- wrongs of, 16
- J.
- Jackson, President Andrew, 9
- Jerome, Judge Edwin, guest of Halls, 24
- Johnson, Gen. Albert Sydney, 9
- Johnson, Col. R. M., and Shabona, 108
- K.
- Kaskaskia, mission and capital, 9
- Kishwaukee river, 10
- Kishwaukee Trail, 13
- L.
- La Fayette, Gen., at Kaskaskia, 9
- Land, Indian claims to, 13
- donated to Hall girls, 104
- Landis, Judge K. M., married Winnie Eckles, 98
- Lands, treaty as to, 13
- Lincoln, Capt. Abraham, 44
- anecdote of, 53
- President, at Kaskaskia, 9
- Little Priest, Indian chief, 61
- as hostage, 87
- M.
- Maple sugar, abundance, 62, 64
- Marquette, Father, 9
- Marriage and civilization, 25
- Indian wife purchase, 23
- Massacre, the Indian Creek, 31
- Medary, George, Hotel of, 84
- Michigan, excitement in, 54
- Mill, necessity in settlement, 25
- Miller, important settler, 25
- Military movements, 51
- Military Road, course of, 67, 78
- Militia, drunk, 52
- Monument erected by Munson, 4, 103, 104
- Monument erected by state, 104
- Monuments on site of massacre, 4, 103
- Munson, Rachel, three generations of, 103
- burial place of, 98
- given land, 103
- Munson, William, sketch of, 95
- family of, 96, 97, 98
- picture of, 96
- N.
- Neighbors, helping each other, 25
- Norris, Robert, at work on dam, 33
- shot by Indians, 36
- O.
- Oconomowoc river, 10
- lakes around, 63
- Ox-teams for breaking prairie, 25
- P.
- Paw Paw, Shabona’s village, 108
- Pecatonica, battle of, 92
- Pensions from England, 26
- Peru, home of Elder Horn, 100
- Pettigrew, Wm., sketch of, 24
- baby killed by Indian, 34
- killed by Indians, 34
- Mrs., shot in cottage, 34
- Picture of a prairie fire, 11
- Black Hawk as civilian, 21
- Black Hawk as warrior, 17
- Chief Shabona, 30
- Monuments, 4, 27, 99, 103
- Mrs. Dunavan, Mrs. Hum, Mrs. Watts, Howard Hum, Gladys Hum, Samuel Dunavan, 103
- Mrs. Rachel Hall Munson and son Elliott, 97
- Mrs. W. S. Horn and the Elder, 101
- none of Misses Hall, 7
- Shabona Park, 37
- where girls entered canoes, 69
- William Munson, after middle life, 96
- Wisconsin river, 75
- tombs of Rachel and her husband, 99
- Portage, where girls took canoes, 69
- Pottawatomie Indians, 13, 16, 53
- Prairie breaking, 25
- Purse for Hall girls, 94
- Pursuit of Indians, 44
- Pypagee, Shabona’s son, friend of settlers, 22, 108
- Pyps, Shabona’s nephew, friend of settlers, 22, 108
- Q.
- Quails, plentiful, 12
- R.
- Rabbits, abundant, 12
- Rachel’s comb, taken by Indian, 62
- Rachel ransomed, 67
- Ransom from Sacs, 66
- Ratification, refusal of Indians, 16
- Red Bird war, 17
- Red Flag promenade, 65
- Reed, John, marries Phoebe Munson, 98
- Reed, Fannie, married to Mr. Eckles, 98
- Religion, Indian offering, 46
- Religious ceremony, 65, 73
- Reward offered, 54
- payment in goods, 89
- Rivers, formation of, 10
- Road, safest to Blue Mounds, 68
- Rock river, 9
- rapids passed by captives, 63
- Romance and history, 95
- Royally welcomed, 79
- S.
- Sacs claim land, 16
- follow girls to Portage, 71
- danger expected, 77
- Sauk Trail, 26
- Scalp, double meaning of, 70
- Scalping victims, 34
- Scanlan, Miss Marian, contributor, 7
- Scanlan, Miss Gertrude, contributor, 7
- Scott, uncle of Hall girls, 91
- Settlement, Davis, 23
- Settlers attacked by Indians, 21
- rush to Ottawa, 31
- return to Davis settlement, 32
- Shabona, sketch of, 106
- abuse of by squatters, 109
- cheated out of his lands, 109
- Col. Johnson’s gift ring to, 108
- grave of, 40
- home on Mazon creek, 110
- notifies whites, 22, 31
- Park, 27, 110
- Paw Paw Village of, 108
- picture of, 30
- removal to Kansas, 108
- second notice to settlers, 32
- tomb of, 110
- Shaver, Delia, married to William Munson, Jr., 98
- Shaver, George, married Fidelia Munson, 97
- Sod corn, first crop, 25
- Somonauk, passing headwaters, 40
- Spotted Arm, chief, 57
- as hostage, 87
- Springfield, state capital, 1837, 9
- Starved Rock State Park, 9
- Stillman, Major, defeat of, “Stillman’s Run”, 20
- “Stillman’s Run”, rout at, 20, 48, 51, 52
- militia undisciplined, 20, 51
- pursuing Indians, 20, 51
- truce flag abused, 20
- Stockades, building of, 54
- Storms, rains, 31
- St. Louis, girls ship for, 93
- Sycamore river, 10
- Sycamore at rising of moon, 41
- Sylvia Hall, one of the “Hall girls”, 6
- first ransomed, 66
- T.
- Taylor Gen., report to Atkinson, 51
- Tecumseh, Chief, 22
- To-qua-mee, arrest for murder, 111
- acquitted of murder, 112
- alleged confession of murder, 113
- Indian marriage, 23
- Torture, not women captives, 64
- Traditions proved, 7
- Treaty of 1804, 13
- Articles, 13-16
- Turkeys on prairies, 12
- Turnips, first crop, 25
- Turtle Creek, 10
- Turtle Village, 55
- V.
- Vance, Ed., lawyer in Dakota, 98
- Vance, Dr. G., marries Irma Munson, 97
- W.
- Walker, Sheriff, fearless, 111
- Waterway, Green Bay to Prairie du Chien, 13
- Watts, Mrs., picture of, 103
- Waubansee, friend of the whites, 30
- Whirling Thunder, promises assistance, 57
- White Crow, promises assistance, 57
- character and appearance, 66
- makes speech to girls, 87
- speech at Morrison’s, 57
- speaks English to captives, 74
- White Oak Springs, description of, 91, 92
- Whiteside with Harney, 51
- finds white scalps, 50
- Winnebago Indians, 16
- “Winnebago”, steamboat for St. Louis, 93
- Wisconsin river scenery, 73
- Woods, description, 26