Circleville Massacre, A Tragic Incident in the Black Hawk War

W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, September 1995 Dissatisfied with the treatment his people had received at the hands of government officials as well as from the ever-encroaching Mormon settlers, a minor Ute leader named Black Hawk gathered with members of other bands in 1863 to retaliate against their white enemies. The period of intensified raids that followed became known as …