Featured in this lot is the Rare, "Autobiography Of Black Hawk", editor J. B. Patterson 1882. "Autobiography Of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, Or Black Hawk, Embracing the Traditions of His Nation...and his account of the cause and general history the Black Hawk War of 1832, his surrender, and travels through the United States. Dictated by Himself. Antoine LeClair, U. S. Interpreter, J. B. Patterson, Editor and Amanuensis, Rock Island, Illinois, 1833. Also Life, Death And Burial Of The Old Chief, Together With A History of the Black Hawk War, By J. B. Patterson, Oquawka, Ill. 1882". This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior leader who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people. The author is Black Hawk himself - once pursued by an army whose members included Captain Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. Perhaps no Indian ever saw so much of American expansion or fought harder to prevent that expansion from driving his people to exile and death. He knew Zebulon Pike, William Clark, Henry Schoolcraft, George Catlin, Winfield Scott, and such figures in American government as President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of State Lewis Cass. He knew Chicago when it was a cluster of log houses around a fort, and he was in St. Louis the day the American flag went up and the French flag came down. He died in 1838, bitter in the knowledge that he had led men, women, and children of his tribe to slaughter on the banks of the Mississippi. He dictated his autobiography to a government interpreter, Antoine LeClair, and the story was put into written form by J. B. Patterson, a young Illinois newspaperman. Since its first appearance in 1833, the autobiography has become known as an American classic. Black Hawk's account was the first Native American autobiography published in the United States. This brown cloth bound gold gilt stamped hardcover is in good overall condition, age tanning and foxing exhibited throughout. No other obvious marring noted, measures 5.5"W x 8.25"L x .75"D