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McIntosh, John, Speech of Black Hawk when he surrendered himself to the agent at Prairie Du Chien.

Moses, John, Black Hawk War.

Parrish, Randall, The Struggle with Black Hawk.

Paterson, J. B., Autobiography of Black Hawk.

Snyder, J. F., The Burial and Resurrection of Black Hawk.

Stevens, F. E., The Black Hawk War, including a Review of Black Hawk’s Life.

Steward, J. F., Sac and Fox Trail.

Thwaites, R. G., The Black Hawk War.

If his young readers shall be sufficiently interested in this story of Black Hawk to follow the struggles by which America was won as they are recorded in our historical works, the writer will feel that his purpose in part at least has been accomplished.

Paul G. Tomlinson.

Elizabeth, New Jersey.

THE TRAIL OF BLACK HAWK

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“Black Hawk is on the trail again.”

Joseph Hall was the speaker. With his parents, two sisters and a brother he lived on the American frontier in Illinois. In these days a reference to that part of the country as “the frontier” would cause a smile to appear on the faces of those who might hear such a statement, but in the year 1832, when the scene of this story is laid, Illinois was very far west. On Indian Creek, near its junction with Fox River, in a little clearing in the forest, the Hall family dwelt and made a hard living from the soil and from the game they might secure with the rifle.