Native American

Black Hawk Indian History - including the Black Hawk War and a List of Early White Settlers Newspaper Stories concerning Native Americans in Rock Island County

Early Settlers and Pioneers

List of Early Settlers Biographies Reminiscences of Pioneer Life  in the Mississippi Valley by J.W. Spencer, published in 1872. The author met Black Hawk, participated in the Black Hawk War and gives a description of early Rock Island County Excerpt from "A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior." More early pioneer data - from 1846. Also includes a piece on Nauvoo as well as Starved Rock.