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Indian chief’s tactics at Battle of Wisconsin Heights revisted in new book

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A new book looks the leadership shown by the Native American warrior Black Hawk, as
he held off a larger U.S. militia, during a battle in what is now Wisconsin. Chuck Quirmbach reports.

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