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