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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
THE WAR IN OUISCONSIN.
The facts, or the substance of the facts, embraced in the following account. of the Black Hawk war in Ouisconsin, have been collected from various authentic sources, and at different times.
This account will be fuller in detail, and will contain a few additional facts, but in other respects it will not differ materially from my second edition of this history, which was published several years ago.
Ouisconsin (now Wisconsin) was attached to the Territory of Michigan at. that time, for protective and judicial purposes.
At that time the Territory of Michigan proper contained a population of between thirty-one and thirty-two thousand souls—a little more than the present number of inhabitants of Grand Rapids, and about twice and one half as many as the present number of inhabitants in the "Big Village. " A little more than two thousand of that vast multitude (of nearly thirty-two thousand) were crowded into the old and much renowned city of Detroit. At that time the upper peninsula, with its icebergs and bareness and desolation and want of attraction, was "nowhere, " and did not belong to anybody.
In the month of February, in 1804, Maj. Stoddard, with the U. S. troops under his command, took formal possession of the land on the east side of the Mississippi river, near the mouth of the Wisconsin river.
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