James H. Lockwood, Vol. 2, p. 170, and John H. Fonda, Vol. 5, p. 256, in writing of these events from memory for the Wisconsin Historical Collections, fixed upon the year 1830 for the murders of the Sioux and Kettle’s Foxes, Fonda including the Menominee affair in the same year. A.R. Fulton, in his “Red Men of Iowa,” inferentially used the same year for the three events; all agreed that the three followed in _rapid_ succession. Lockwood has made so many glaring errors in other parts of his narrative that it is easy to believe that he was wrong in placing any of them in 1830. The three affairs did occur with unusual propinquity of succession, but in 1831, as the contemporaneous reports herein given have shown, and which must be believed against memory. L.C. Draper, usually accurate, fell into Lockwood’s mistake in his note to Fonda’s letter, by not taking time to investigate. ----- Footnote 84: Peters’ U.S. Stat. at Large, Vol. vii. p. 272. Footnote 85: See same in map of “Military Tract.” Footnote 86: Vol. 2, Wis. Hist. Colls., p. 170. Footnote 87: Keokuk, as will be seen later, said the matter was “made all good and even,” but no record of the transaction is to be found. Footnote 88: Twenty-five. Footnote 89: Untrue in every respect. Every Sac who attempted an explanation had a widely different version. Footnote 90: Substantially different from the other version and painfully unreal. ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER XV. NE-A-POPE’S MISSION–KEOKUK’S VILLAGE–COUNCIL–BLACK HAWK MOVES DOWN IOWA RIVER AND UP THE MISSISSIPPI TO ROCK RIVER–ATKINSON MOVES UP TO FORT ARMSTRONG.