Early Wars
Map of Fort Madison, 1889
Fort Atkinson Blueprint
Chief Black Hawk (1767-1838)
Fort Atkinson
Sac and Mesquakie Move to Iowa
Negotiations
Black Hawk Speaks to His Followers
Keokuk Pleads With Black Hawk
Black Hawk War
Black Hawk Treaty
Massacre at Spirit Lake
Sioux Uprising of 1862
Fort Atkinson
Time Frame: ca. 1930
The ruins of the old fort at Fort Atkinson, Iowa. The federal government built 22 forts in the Iowa Territory in the early 1800s. Fort Atkinson was one of them.
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