Life of Black Hawk

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Excerpt from Life of Black Hawk: Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Of our middle border. Much as our coun try blundered into war with England in 1812, so, twenty years later, Black Hawk blundered into war with the United States. As great a tragedy, but much longer drawn out, was the entire life of Black Hawk. The reasons for reprinting at this time his Apologz'a have been stated in the main in the Historical Introduc tion which follows these pages. Here I desire only to call attention to the attitude which has governed me, first in recommending to the Lakeside Press the selection of this work for inclusion in the Lakeside Classics, and second in performing the editorial work which was entrusted to me. I am far from yielding to the American Indian the blind adulation and undiscriminating praise which unfortunately has long been popular with a certain school of writers. Nor, on the other hand, do I think he should be treated with the unreasoning scorn and bitter prejudice which was commonly manifested by the frontiersmen who came into actual contact and con¿ict with him. The Indian was a savage, even, it may be granted, a splendid type of savage. As such, he hadchitor's ibrrfarc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.