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200 wisconsin histoe1oal society " like one in a dream trying to call or to run but without the ability to do either to save himself we-kau kept running round the big tree at the corner of the house well knowing if he should put off in a line she would haye better aim and be more likely to kill him after a few turns round the tree and finding she had no power over the rifle she turned short about and made for the village bearing the rifle with her to give the alarm ; which being given she returned followed by a posse of armed men and found her infant which she had left covered up in the bed on the floor scalped and its neck cut just below the occiput to the btoe this was the work of we-kau who being intent on having a scalp — the other two having secured theirs — there being no other subject took one from the head of the child the knife from the examination made of the head was applied in front of the crown7 and brought round by the right ear and far down behind and up again on the other side the object seeming to be to get as much hair as he could in the turn of the knife at the back of the head the deep cut was given which found its way to the bone the child when i saw it was comfortable and i believe it recovered — but the sight of a rifle even at that tender age when one might suppose it could not distinguish between a rifle and any thing else would terrify it almost into fits young as it was it must from its place in the bed have seen a rifle in connexidn with what it was made itself so immediately after7 to suffer i made the mother presents for herself and child governor cass after our first parting at green bay arrived at the prairie just after these murders had been committed the inhabitants being7 as was natural in a state of great alarm he devised the best means of defence in his power and descended the mississippi with tidings of the out-break to gen atkinson from the day the governor left green bay till his return to it which was four weeks he had voyaged in a bark canoe sixteen hundred miles — this was going at an vaver age rate of about sixty miles the day including a tarry of one day at the prairie and three at st louis
Object Description
| Language | English |
| Pagination | viii, 438 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Page | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume V (1868) |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | XML |
| Source Creation Date | 1868 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvV0000 |
| Description | Report and collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the years 1867, 1868 and 1869, vol. 5, includes the following articles: Eulogies for John Warren Hunt and Louis Powell Harvey; Canadian documents; Early days at Prairie du Chien and the Winnebago Outbreak of 1827, by William J. Snelling; Indian honor, an incident of the Winnebago War; the Winnebago Outbreak, by Lewis Cass; Letter to Gen. Henry Atkinson, by Henry Dodge; A western reminiscence, by Abram Edwards; Eulogy on Henry Dodge; The Winnebago War, by Thomas L. McKenney; Reminiscences of Wisconsin, by John H. Fonda; Dodge's volunteers in the Black Hawk War; Reminiscences of the Black Hawk War, by Emilie; Battle of the Bad Ax, by Henry Smith; Capture of Black Hawk, by David McBride; Dells of Wisconsin, Black Hawk's Cave; Black Hawk's autobiography vindicated, by J.B. Patterson; Death of Black Hawk, by Willard Barrows; Winnebagoes and the Black Hawk War; Sioux and the Black Hawk War; Personal narratives of Black Hawk War, by Joseph Dixon and W. Davidson; Early history of education in Wisconsin, by W.C. Whitford; History of school supervision in Wisconsin, by W.C. Whitford; Life and services of J.D. Doty, by Albert G. Ellis; Reminiscences of Hole-in-the-Day; Death of Hole-in-the-Day; Murder of Hole-in-the-Day; Additional notes on the younger Hole-in-the-Day; Gen Cass at St. Marie, 1820. |
| Article Title | Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume V (1868) |
| Volume | Vol. 05 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 5 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
Description
| Language | English |
| Page | 200 |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Format-Digital | JP2 |
| Source Creation Date | 1868 |
| Identifier-Digital | whcvV0214 |
| Author | McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 |
| Page Type | article |
| Volume | Vol. 05 |
| Series | Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ; v. 5 |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| Full Text | 200 wisconsin histoe1oal society " like one in a dream trying to call or to run but without the ability to do either to save himself we-kau kept running round the big tree at the corner of the house well knowing if he should put off in a line she would haye better aim and be more likely to kill him after a few turns round the tree and finding she had no power over the rifle she turned short about and made for the village bearing the rifle with her to give the alarm ; which being given she returned followed by a posse of armed men and found her infant which she had left covered up in the bed on the floor scalped and its neck cut just below the occiput to the btoe this was the work of we-kau who being intent on having a scalp — the other two having secured theirs — there being no other subject took one from the head of the child the knife from the examination made of the head was applied in front of the crown7 and brought round by the right ear and far down behind and up again on the other side the object seeming to be to get as much hair as he could in the turn of the knife at the back of the head the deep cut was given which found its way to the bone the child when i saw it was comfortable and i believe it recovered — but the sight of a rifle even at that tender age when one might suppose it could not distinguish between a rifle and any thing else would terrify it almost into fits young as it was it must from its place in the bed have seen a rifle in connexidn with what it was made itself so immediately after7 to suffer i made the mother presents for herself and child governor cass after our first parting at green bay arrived at the prairie just after these murders had been committed the inhabitants being7 as was natural in a state of great alarm he devised the best means of defence in his power and descended the mississippi with tidings of the out-break to gen atkinson from the day the governor left green bay till his return to it which was four weeks he had voyaged in a bark canoe sixteen hundred miles — this was going at an vaver age rate of about sixty miles the day including a tarry of one day at the prairie and three at st louis |