“Raising the White Flag: Henry Dodge and the War Against Black Hawk”
The 1832 military conflict, which pitted American militias and regulars against the Sauk warrior Black Hawk and his allies, concluding with a horrific massacre of hundreds of men, women, and children in the waters of the Mississippi River. Ms. Roberts will provide an overview of this tragic chapter in regional history with an emphasis on the role played by Henry Dodge, champion of the early lead miners and later first Territorial Governor of Wisconsin.
Tracey Lee Roberts is Senior Lecturer (Emerita) from the University of Wisconsin- Platteville. For three decades, she has been teaching, researching, and writing about the history of the old Lead Mine District of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. She is currently writing a full-length biography of Henry Dodge, Wisconsin’s first Territorial Governor