The “Scalping Editor” A companion piece to “Galena and the Blawk Hawk War” by Mike Jones found in the Galena GazetteThe Galenian, Volume 1, Number 14, 1 August 1832Black Hawk’s band was in desperate straits during their fighting retreat to get back across the Mississippi River. “…especially the old, [who] were dying or just stopping along the trail to meet …

The most impactful consequences were: the slaughter of Black Hawk’s band, removal of Native
peoples from Illinois and Wisconsin; and a boom of settler migration to the Federal Lead Mining
District, especially Galena, after the war.

Black Hawk, born in 1767, was 65 years old when the Black Hawk War broke out.

Trivia Winners The winning team from the Galena Trivia contest January 16 at Turner Hall, Mike Casper, Katey Casper, Mike Steinhoff, Janet Steinhoff, Janet Eggleston, Jon Clingman, John Cox, and Bonnie Cox

December 27th saw us celebrate the beginning of our Bicentennial year with a mayoral proclamation and toast!

Ely Samuel Parker, only man to hold the ranks of Sachem and US General, was posthumously admitted to the New York Bar, 130 years after his death and 160 years after he penned one of the most important legal documents in US history.

Imagine living in Galena in 1860.

April 27, 1918, was Ulysses S Grant’s 96th birthday.  Kenesaw Mountain Landis delivered a speech for the occasion

Waanįk Šuuc, known to us as “Red Bird,” was a Ho Chunk leader who resisted the white incursion into Wisconsin.  He was eventually surrounded and surrendered, expecting to be honorably executed.  Instead he died imprisoned at Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1828.