Benton led the fight in the Senate on the government factory system. The book contains a brief partisan account of his activities in this connection.
Black Hawk. Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-hia-kiak or Black Hawk ... with an account of the course and general history of the late war ... (Boston, 1834).
The work, edited by J. B. Patterson, purports to have been dictated by Black Hawk to Antoine Le Clare, a half-breed interpreter. Its trustworthiness has been called in question, but for the purposes for which it has been cited in this work, at least, it seems worthy of credence.
Blanchard, Rufus. Discovery and Conquests of the Northwest with the History of Chicago (Wheaton, Ill., 1881).
A later edition of this work was brought out at Chicago in 1898 in two volumes. It is carelessly and uncritically written, but contains some information obtained by the author in interviews with pioneers which is not to be had elsewhere.
Brice, Wallace A. History of Fort Wayne from the Earliest Known Accounts of this Point to the Present Period .... (Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1868).
Carter, Clarence Edwin. Great Britain and the Illinois Country, 1762-1774 (Washington, 1910).
One of the prize essays of the American Historical Association.
Caton, John Dean. Miscellanies (Boston, 1880).
Contains a description by a sympathetic and highly intelligent observer of the Pottawatomies' farewell to Chicago in 1835.