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In 1833, near the end of his captivity, Black Hawk dictated his life story to an interpreter and this account, edited by a local reporter J. B. Patterson, was the first Native American autobiography to be published in the U.S. It immediately became a bestseller, going through many editions, and is reprinted from the 1882 edition which includes additional material by Patterson on the history of the Black Hawk War.

Excerpt from Elizabeth Henry IV, Being a Short Study in Anglo-French Relations, 1589-1603: Arnold Prize Essay, 1914 "Some say I am a hunter, others that I make love, but I wake when they sleepe." (Henry IV. to Sir Ralph Winwood. Memorials of State, vol. iv., p. 409.) 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 ...

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Black Hawk or Black Sparrow Hawk (Sauk Makataimeshekiakiak) (1767-1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the United States. Although he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not a hereditary civil chief of the Sauk, but was an appointed war chief. He was generally known in English as Black Hawk. During the War of 1812, he fought on the side of the British. Later he led a band of Sa...

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