Washington Franklin SHELY - Media
Washington Franklin SHELY - Media
Battle of Bad Axe by Cary
Washington Franklin Shely 1832 Nicholasville, Jessmine, Kentucky
Battle of Bad Axe by Cary
WILLIAM de la MONTAGNE CARY (1840-1922), 1832 Black Hawk War, “Battle of Bad Axe”, engraving by Ernest Heinemann (1848-1912), engraver - New York Public Library, originally published in “Popular history of the United States, from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen to the end of the Civil War” (New York: Scribner, c1876-1881).
Washington Franklin Shely 1832 Nicholasville, Jessmine, Kentucky
Washington Franklin Shely 1832 Nicholasville, Jessmine, Kentucky. The Black Hawk War (1832) was a series of skirmishes in 1832 between U.S. Army and frontier militia units against the followers of Sauk Chief Black Hawk. Fought in Illinois and Wisconsin, the war was one of many conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers over western land.


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