INDEX
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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, 23
arrest of for murder, 111
acquittal, 112
alleged confession of murder, 113
Country, description of, 9
D.
Dam across Indian Creek, 29
Indians object to, 29
Indian tears outlet through, 29
Dancing of Indians, 41, 59, 64
Davis City, dream of, 28
Davis, Jefferson, 9
Davis Settlement, 23
Davis, Alex., escape of, 32
Davis, William, sketch of, 25
children of murdered, 35
murdered by Indians, 35
powerful and brave, 28
whipped Indian with stick, 29
Davis, Wm., Jr., escape of, 35
Dedication of State Monument, 105
Deer, herds of, 12
Description of country, 9
Dixon, center of trails, 13
Dodge, Col., raises troops, 54
address to Indians, 85
command at Blue Mounds, 81
takes hostages, 87
Drunkenness in Militia, 52
“Dry Year”, the, 31
Dunavan, Mrs. A. Miranda, 6, 97, 103
information given by, 6
Dunavan, Samuel, married Miss Munson, 97
picture of, 103
E.
Eckles, Hon. James II., U. S. Treasurer, 98
Eckles, Winnie, married to Judge Landis, 98
English government pensioned Sacs, 26
Evidence, best, 6
F.
Family history, Munson, 6, 95
Family history, Horn, 6, 100
Fire, a prairie, 11
Flag of Truce, 20, 79
Flowers, many beautiful, 12, 27
great growth of, 31
Forests, trees of, 10
Fort Defiance, rest at, 78
Fort Winnebago, Portage, 78
Fox Indians, 13
Fox river, description of, 9
G.
Galena, meeting of people, 54
Game, abundance of, 12
Geology of country, 10
George, Henry, at work on dam, 32
shot by Indians, 36
Gratiot, Capt. Bion, and Indians, 81
wife of, cultured, 89, 90
Gratiot, Col. Henry, Indians’ friend, 55
address to Indians, 84
Gratiot’s Grove, description of, 89
H.
Hair, ceremony of clipping, 68, 70
cutting locks from captives, 68
scalp, double meaning of, 70
Hall girls, as captives, 41-47, 59-65
adopted by chiefs, 61
and neighbors’ horses, 39
at Black Earth Creek, 76, 77
at Black Hawk’s Grove, 45
at Blue Mounds, 79-83
at Cold Spring, 61
at Fort Defiance, 88
at Galena, 93
at Gratiot’s Grove, 88-90
at Horicon, Lake, 66-67
at Kishwaukee river, 42-44
at Morrison’s, 84-88
at Portage, 70
at St. Louis, 93
at White Oak Springs, 90-92
description of, 7, 8
dresses given by squaws, 62
food of captives, 43, 46, 62, 72, 76, 78
guests of Gov. Clark, 93
Indians wanted as wives, 23
kept apart in traveling, 61
letter from Rev. Horn, 91
painted by squaws, 60
popular appellation of, 6
prayers of, 39
presents to, 92, 102, 104
purse collected for, 94
Rachel exhausted, 42, 98
religious offerings, 46
sleeping between squaws, 46
tiresome traveling, 42, 70, 78
weeping of, 39, 90
wept parting squaws, 79
Hall, Edward, in militia, 79
Hall, Elizabeth, killed by Indians, 23, 35
Hall, Greenbury, escape of, 32, 36
Hall, John W., escape of, 35, 36
buries massacred whites, 49
meets sisters, 91
recruits squadron, 48
searches for sisters, 49, 50
statement of, 102
visits sisters in Nebraska, 102
Hall, Reason, in Militia, 79
Hall, Rachel, one of the “Hall girls”, ages of, 23, 98
death of, 98
exhausted, 42, 98
family of, 96, 98
marriage of, 95
picture of, 97
state land gift, 102
tomb of, 99
wading Kishwaukee, 42
Hall, Sylvia, one of the “Hall girls”, ages of, 23, 100
death of, 100
fainted at sight of scalp, 43
family of, 100
marriage of, 100
pictures of, 24, 101
state land gift to, 102
Hall, William, sketch of, 23
family of, 23
hospitality, noted, 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
Little Priest, Indian chief, 61
as hostage, 87
M.
Maple sugar, abundance, 62, 64
Marquette, Father, 9
Marriage and civilization, 25
Indian wife purchase, 23
Massacre, the Indian Creek, 31
Medary, George, Hotel of, 84
Michigan, excitement in, 54
Mill, necessity in settlement, 25
Miller, important settler, 25
Military movements, 51
Military Road, course of, 67, 78
Militia, drunk, 52
Monument erected by Munson, 4, 103, 104
Monument erected by state, 104
Monuments on site of massacre, 4, 103
Munson, Rachel, three generations of, 103
burial place of, 98
given land, 103
Munson, William, sketch of, 95
family of, 96, 97, 98
picture of, 96
N.
Neighbors, helping each other, 25
Norris, Robert, at work on dam, 33
shot by Indians, 36
O.
Oconomowoc river, 10
lakes around, 63
Ox-teams for breaking prairie, 25
P.
Paw Paw, Shabona’s village, 108
Pecatonica, battle of, 92
Pensions from England, 26
Peru, home of Elder Horn, 100
Pettigrew, Wm., sketch of, 24
baby killed by Indian, 34
killed by Indians, 34
Mrs., shot in cottage, 34
Picture of a prairie fire, 11
Black Hawk as civilian, 21
Black Hawk as warrior, 17
Chief Shabona, 30
Monuments, 4, 27, 99, 103
Mrs. Dunavan, Mrs. Hum, Mrs. Watts, Howard Hum, Gladys Hum, Samuel Dunavan, 103
Mrs. Rachel Hall Munson and son Elliott, 97
Mrs. W. S. Horn and the Elder, 101
none of Misses Hall, 7
Shabona Park, 37
where girls entered canoes, 69
William Munson, after middle life, 96
Wisconsin river, 75
tombs of Rachel and her husband, 99
Portage, where girls took canoes, 69
Pottawatomie Indians, 13, 16, 53
Prairie breaking, 25
Purse for Hall girls, 94
Pursuit of Indians, 44
Pypagee, Shabona’s son, friend of settlers, 22, 108
Pyps, Shabona’s nephew, friend of settlers, 22, 108
Q.
Quails, plentiful, 12
R.
Rabbits, abundant, 12
Rachel’s comb, taken by Indian, 62
Rachel ransomed, 67
Ransom from Sacs, 66
Ratification, refusal of Indians, 16
Red Bird war, 17
Red Flag promenade, 65
Reed, John, marries Phoebe Munson, 98
Reed, Fannie, married to Mr. Eckles, 98
Religion, Indian offering, 46
Religious ceremony, 65, 73
Reward offered, 54
payment in goods, 89
Rivers, formation of, 10
Road, safest to Blue Mounds, 68
Rock river, 9
rapids passed by captives, 63
Romance and history, 95
Royally welcomed, 79
S.
Sacs claim land, 16
follow girls to Portage, 71
danger expected, 77
Sauk Trail, 26
Scalp, double meaning of, 70
Scalping victims, 34
Scanlan, Miss Marian, contributor, 7
Scanlan, Miss Gertrude, contributor, 7
Scott, uncle of Hall girls, 91
Settlement, Davis, 23
Settlers attacked by Indians, 21
rush to Ottawa, 31
return to Davis settlement, 32
Shabona, sketch of, 106
abuse of by squatters, 109
cheated out of his lands, 109
Col. Johnson’s gift ring to, 108
grave of, 40
home on Mazon creek, 110
notifies whites, 22, 31
Park, 27, 110
Paw Paw Village of, 108
picture of, 30
removal to Kansas, 108
second notice to settlers, 32
tomb of, 110
Shaver, Delia, married to William Munson, Jr., 98
Shaver, George, married Fidelia Munson, 97
Sod corn, first crop, 25
Somonauk, passing headwaters, 40
Spotted Arm, chief, 57
as hostage, 87
Springfield, state capital, 1837, 9
Starved Rock State Park, 9
Stillman, Major, defeat of, “Stillman’s Run”, 20
“Stillman’s Run”, rout at, 20, 48, 51, 52
militia undisciplined, 20, 51
pursuing Indians, 20, 51
truce flag abused, 20
Stockades, building of, 54
Storms, rains, 31
St. Louis, girls ship for, 93
Sycamore river, 10
Sycamore at rising of moon, 41
Sylvia Hall, one of the “Hall girls”, 6
first ransomed, 66
T.
Taylor Gen., report to Atkinson, 51
Tecumseh, Chief, 22
To-qua-mee, arrest for murder, 111
acquitted of murder, 112
alleged confession of murder, 113
Indian marriage, 23
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