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(Black Hawk) Smith, Elbert H.

MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK; OR, BLACK HAWK, AND SCENES IN THE WEST: ANATIONAL POEM, IN SIX CANTOS; EMBRACING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE ANDEXPLOITS OF THIS CELEBRATED CHIEFTAIN, THE BLACK HAWK WAR, A LEGEND OF THEILLINOIS TRIBE OF INDIANS, SHOWING THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY BECAMEEXTINCT, A SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION OF THE WISCONSIN AND LAKE SUPERIORCOUNTRIES, AND THEIR RICH MINERALS, THE MASSACRE OF CHICAGO, AND OTHERDEEPLY INTERESTING SCENES IN THE WEST, by a Western Tourist.

Edward Kearny, NY: 1848. First edition. 12mo. 299 pp. Frontispiece portrait, extra engraved title page (name torn from upper margin). Sabin 82461. A book length poem based on the author's THE HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK (Milwaukee, 1846). Original gilt- stamped cloth (faded), gilt title on spine; foxed, else a very good copy.

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