{"id":16257,"date":"2026-04-28T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16257"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:36:28","slug":"black-hawk-and-the-army-at-fort-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/black-hawk-and-the-army-at-fort-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Hawk and the Army at Fort Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the U.S. Army built Fort Madison, the first fort on the west side of the Mississippi River, the Native American tribes in the area took notice. Chief Black Hawk was the leader of one of those tribes. Through his autobiography \u2014 dictating his life story to a translator \u2014 he confirmed what the U.S. Army reported: There was a ravine to the west of the fort that could not be cleared, and attacks that led to the fort&#8217;s abandonment during the War of 1812 sprang from there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/old-fort-madison-and-black-hawks\">An archaeological dig in 2009 discovered artifacts<\/a> that give us a pretty good idea of where that ravine was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/old-fort-madison-and-black-hawks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16258 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_fortmadison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_fortmadison.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_fortmadison-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/substack_fortmadison-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the U.S. Army built Fort Madison, the first fort on the west side of the Mississippi River, the Native American tribes in the area took notice. Chief Black Hawk was the leader of one of those tribes. Through his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/black-hawk-and-the-army-at-fort-madison\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16260,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}