Talk:Black Hawk War
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If you compare to the far-more-detailed account at http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/ it seems like the Wikipedia version has a large number of grossly misleading omissions. (For example, Gen. Scott's troops never participated in the war because they caught a cholera epidemic. As another example, before I rewrote the first couple of paragraphs, they made it seem like there had never been any problems until Black Hawk came home in 1830 and found his land occupied...in reality, there had been treaty disputes stretching back for nearly 30 years, and whites already occupied more of 1830 Illinois than the Native Americans.) Someone really needs to go through and check everything, or rewrite it from scratch, preferably with a third source to corroborate against. (Although the abovementioned URL has a lot of primary source material.) The abovementioned URL also has no mention that I can find of Keokuk's alleged 1830 land sale, and it's not clear how that fits into the earlier treaty disputes, so that definitely needs to be checked against a third source. Steven G. Johnson
