Note 278 — Chapter XXXIX
Reading edition
Page 164, Vol. 3, Smith’s Wis. Foot note by W.R. Smith, the author: “I can vouch myself that I came up the Mississippi in a steamboat, on board of which was Black Hawk, his wife and son and a number of his warriors, in July, 1837, and that Black Hawk was apparently particularly fond of brandy, as he often indulged himself with it at the bar on board of the boat; but to this act, it must be confessed, he was always invited by the white passengers.”