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Title: Iowa, the first free state in the Louisiana purchase : from its discovery to the admission of the state into the Union, 1673-1846
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Salter, William, 1821-1910
Subjects: Iowa -- History Mississippi River Valley -- History
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thewarriors went to a small mound, about two hundredyards from Mr. Rolettes residence, made a fire,roasted the heart of the old chief, and divided it intosmall pieces among the warriors, who devoured it. This occurred in a town of six hundred inhabit-ants, under the walls of the United States garrison,within musket shot of the fort. Neither civil normilitary authority made any effort to prevent it. Inthe afternoon the Sioux embarked in their canoes toreturn to their village. * Not long afterwards a war party was formedin the Fox village to avenge the murder. Wail-ings and lamentations for the dead gave way tosavage yells. With blackened faces, chantingthe death-song, the party entered their canoes.Arriving at the blufifs opposite Prairie du Chienthey discovered a Menomonee encampmentspread out on the ground, nearly under theguns of Fort Crawford. The Foxes lay inambush till midnight, when, girded with toma-hawk and scalping knife, they swam the river * Wis. Hist. Coll., ix., 324-326.
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Keokuk IvjEW YORK ((public library ^3tor, Lenox and Tilrfen//Fourdations.1905 in the Louisiaaa Purchase 141 and stole upon the foe. In the first lodge anold chief sat by a smouldering fire, smoking hispipe in sleepy silence. They despatched himwithout making a disturbance, and pursuedtheir bloody work from lodge to lodge, until thewhole encampment, with the women and chil-dren, met the same fate. Then with a yell ofsatisfaction and revenge they took to the canoesof their victims, bearing aloft the trophies ofvictory. Upon reaching their village, they heldtheir orgies and danced the scalp-dance. Butfearing a swift retaliation, they concluded toabandon their village, and seek a safer placeamong other bands of their tribe, and near theSacs. They settled where the city of Davenportnow stands. Eye-witnesses reported seeing themas they came down past Rock Island, theircanoes lashed side by side, the heads and scalpsof their enemies set upon poles. They landedwith shouts of triumph, singing

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