[Illustration: MUNSON MONUMENT. PLACE OF MASSACRE. STATE MONUMENT.] INDIAN CREEK MASSACRE and CAPTIVITY OF HALL GIRLS COMPLETE HISTORY of the MASSACRE OF SIXTEEN WHITES on INDIAN CREEK, NEAR OTTAWA, ILL. and SYLVIA HALL AND RACHEL HALL As Captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during THE BLACK HAWK WAR, 1832 BY CHARLES M. SCANLAN Author of “Scanlan’s Rules of Order,” “The Law of Church and Grave,” “Law of Hotels” Etc. SECOND EDITION REIC PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 Matthews Building Milwaukee, Wis. COPYRIGHT, 1915. BY CHARLES M. SCANLAN PREFACE. No one is satisfied with an incomplete story. The very meagre and inconsistent accounts of the adventures of Sylvia and Rachel Hall (familiarly known as the “Hall girls”) heretofore published, merely excited one’s curiosity to know the whole story. The ladies’ statements that have been published, gave only an outline of the facts as far as they knew them personally. To obtain all the facts, required much investigation of books and a great deal of correspondence with historical societies, editors of newspapers and the War and the Interior Department of the United States. Also, the writer has had personal interviews with relatives of the Misses Hall, and has traveled over the ground and examined all the evidence that now appears from the location of the little cottage on Indian Creek to Galena where the girls took a boat for St. Louis. Mrs. A. Miranda Dunavan, a daughter of Mrs. Rachel Hall Munson (the younger captive), gave me the family history of her mother; and Miss Sylvia E. Horn of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mr. C. L. Horn of Mackinaw, Illinois. grand-children of Mrs. Sylvia Hall Horn (the elder captive), contributed the history of the Horn family. Thus every fact in the following pages is stated upon the best evidence. To gather all the traditions that still linger along the course over which the Indians traveled with their captives, the writer enlisted the services of his nieces, Miss Gertrude Scanlan of Fennimore, Wisconsin, and Miss Marian Scanlan of Prairie du Chien, whose grandfathers were pioneers in the lead regions. However, no fact has been stated on tradition without the clues being verified by land records or government documents.