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• 05.10.08
  Battle Hollow
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (0)

  September 9, 2004, continued. After two miles of gravel, I came to the end of Battle Hollow Road. I met only one car, apparently some high school kids on their way to school. At the end there were a couple of residences. I took this photo facing northwest. According to one diary, this hollow was the route taken to the river by a large number of Black Hawk's people, and was also the route taken by the left wing of the forces under Gen. Atkinson: Our order of battle was promptly arranged under the personal supervision of Gen. ...
  
  
• 05.09.08
  Battle Hollow Road
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (1)

  Back to my before-breakfast ride on 9 Sept 2004. This is one of the old historical markers that marks the last events of the Black Hawk war. I wanted to visit Battle Hollow. It was one mile by crow from this sign, but a little farther by road. There have been discussions on the phred bicycle touring list about the suitability of Hwy 35 for bicycle touring. It's the road on the east side of the Mississippi. Battle Hollow Road is a gravel road that leads away from it and gently up the ...
  
  
• 05.07.08
  Campground at Victory
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (0)

  I had planned to do just the one post from the Black Hawk war zone and then get back to posting about the day I spent in Nate Shaw's backyard. But now I'm distracted by the other photos I took on 9 September 2004. That was the summer we decided we were getting a bit old for using my backpacking tent for our car/bicycle camping trips. So we decided to become degenerate and get a bigger tent in which we could camp in luxury. It's shown here, at the Army Corps of Engineers campground ...
  
  
• 05.06.08
  Where did you put that marker?
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (0)

  Eric Scheske at The Daily Eudemon posted a bit of trivia about a historical marker: Historical marker on U.S. 11 in Mississippi: John L. Sullivan defeated Jack Kilrain for heavyweight championship in a 75 round fight on July 8, 1889, at Richburg, 3 miles southwest of this spot. This was the last official bare-knuckle bout. Jim Ruland in the March 2008 issue of The Oxford American writes: “Historical markers are notorious for being inaccurate, but this one is ridiculously vague. Three miles? . . . And since Sullivan mauled Kilrain with his bare hands, which made the fight illegal, how could the fight ...
  
  
• 02.04.08
  Sheldon Brown remembered
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Wisconsin (1)

  The bicycle touring community received some bad news today. Sheldon Brown died last night from a massive heart attack. By way of a memorial, the above scene comes to mind. It's a favorite camping site for Myra and me. It's a sadly peaceful setting, and Sheldon played a role in getting me there in September 2004. It's a campsite high above Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, in Wyalusing State Park. It looks down at the place where the Wisconsin River flows into the Mississippi. One doesn't get that kind of view many places in the midwest. The airport is far below, and you ...
  
  

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