Black Hawk and the War of 1832 reveals how the Black Hawk War culminated in a final battle that was so brutal that many local tribes fled to the West.

In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move eastern Indian Tribes west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory.

The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories north of the Ohio River. But Indian removal in the Old Northwest was much more complicated--involving many Indian peoples and more than just one policy, event, or politician. In Land Too Good for Indians, historian John P. Bowes takes a long-needed closer, more expansive look at...