August Derleth was perennially interested in the history of his native state of Wisconsin. In Wind over Wisconsin he treats the controversial subject of the Black Hawk War of 1832, when the American government definitively defeated the Sauk (or Sac) tribe in Wisconsin, led by their doughty leader, Chief Black Hawk. A settler from France, Chalfonte Pierneau, keenly understands the repeated duplicity and treachery of the United States in robbing...