Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Teachers' Guide to the Museum: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Black kettle. Pipe formerly the property of this famous Cheyenne chief and warrior, whose village on Sand Creek, Colorado, was in 1864 attacked and destroyed by a force of militia, and a large number of innocent men, women, and children massacred. Black Kettle was later killed in an attack by United States troops under Gen. P. H. Sheridan, at his village on the Washita. - I. H. R.
Daniel boone. Powder-horn, bear ing the initials of his brother', Israel Boone, from whom he received it. A silver coat-button bearing the monogram D. B. The bake-kettle used by him while exploring the Kentucky wilderness (1759 He presented this kettle as a keepsake to his friend and fellow frontiersman, Gen. Simon Kenton. There is also a cast of Boone's skull, made at Frankfort, Ky., in -m. H. R.
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