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Excerpt from The Story of Madison The immediate and lasting effects of the Black Hawk War (1832) were not only the hum bling of the Indians of Northern Illinois and what afterwards became Southern Wisconsin, but Effects of the wide advertising of the country through which the contest had been waged. Black Hawk During and soon after the war, the newspapers of the Eastern States were filled War. With descriptions, more or less florid, of the scenic charms of the Rock River Valley, the groves and prairies on every hand, the park-like district of the Four Lakes, the Wisconsin River highlands, and the picturesque hills and almost impenetrable forests of western Wisconsin. Books and pamphlets by the score were issued from the press, giving accounts of the newly-dis covered paradise, and soon a tide of immigration set thither. Then necessarily followed, in short season, the survey and opening to sale of public lands heretofore reserved, and the purchase of what hunting grounds were still in possession of Indian tribes. The development of the theatre of war thus received a sudden and enormous impetus, so that when the country west of Lake Michigan was divorced from Michigan Territory in 1836, and reared into the independent Territory of \visconsin, there were about twelve thousand whites within the borders of the nas cent commonwealth; and many of the sites of future cities of our State were already occupied by agricultural settlers, isolated or in tiny groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.