Black Hawk War – Page 2 – History in the Margins

Road Trip Through History: An Unexpected Woman Warrior

By Pamela | June 25, 2021 |

Here is the way our road trips work: My Own True Love and I head off with a general plan. We have one or two things we know we want to do. We figure out what we plan to see and where we are staying each night as we go. We stop at every historical…

Road Trip Through History: The Genoa National Fish Hatchery and the Black Hawk War

By Pamela | November 1, 2019 |

Here’s what I knew about the Black Hawk War at the beginning of our most recent travels along the Great River Road: it was a small scale war between Native American tribes and American settlers in the upper Midwest prior to the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln fought in it as a member of the…