Life of Black Hawk: Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak by: Black Hawk [Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak]; edited by Milo Milton Quaife from Antoine LeClair's interpretation
Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk from a portrait painted by Robert M. Sully at Fort Monroe in 1833. This book was originally published in 1833 (dictated by Chief Black Hawk to his translator, Antoine Leclair) and was an immediate best seller. A no holds barred and unflinching narrative of the great Sauk leader. It includes an account of the cause and general history of the Black Hawk War. Clean, bright copy.