• 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, 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
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• 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

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