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In early life his bravery and courage in battle placed him in the front 

 rank of warriors. 



He had an inordinate love for money, probably from associating so 

 much with whites and seeing the value of money in daily affairs. 



A very full account of his personal peculiarities may be found in The 

 " Eed Men of Iowa," pages 246, 247. 



For a portrait and many interesting details of Keokuk's life, and of 

 the Sac and Fox Indians, see " McKenny & Hall," vol. 2, pages 63 to 

 80; see also title " Black Hawk," pages 29 to 48, same volume. 



As before stated, Keokuk died on the Sac and Fox Reservation, in now 

 Franklin County, Kansas, to which he and his people removed in 1845. 

 He died in April, 1848. The Saint Louis newspapers of the period 

 stated that he died from poison administered by one of his people, who 

 was punished for it. He was buried on the reservation near the present 

 village of Pomona, Greenwood Township, Franklin County, Kansas. 



At that time Major Fuller was the agent in charge of the reservation. 

 Keokuk was buried in the earth, his body lying easi and west, his head 

 to the east. Over him was placed a white marble slab inscribed: 

 "Sacred to the memory of Keokuk, a distinguished Sac chief, born at 

 Rock Island in 1783, died April, 1848." 



July 4, 1883, the city of Keokuk, Iowa, gave a celebration, at which 

 Chief Moses Keokuk (see No. 6 of this catalogue), son of Keokuk, was 

 present as the guest of the city. The patriotic citizens of Keokuk — 

 named after the great chief — held a meeting, and determined to remove 

 the body of Keokuk from Kansas to that city. A committee was ap- 

 pointed, application made to tbe Secretary of the Interior, Hon. H. M. 

 Teller, for authority to enter upon the reservation, which was promptly 

 granted, and two citizens of Keokuk, Judge F. C. Davis and Dr. J. M. 

 Shaffer, proceeded to Kansas, and exhumed the remains on the 19th of 

 October, 1883, coffined them, and returned with them to Keokuk, also 

 bringing with them the slab from the grave. 



The remains are now in charge of the city authorities waiting inter- 

 ment. 



The Keokuk Monument Fund Association, in charge of the erection 

 of the monument to Keokuk, have located it in Rand Park, north of that 

 city, on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. It may be 

 seen from the three States of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. It is now 

 being erected. 



A bust of Keokuk in bronze stands in the Marble room of the United 

 States Senate, in the Capitol at Washington. 



(1 A). — Keokuk on horseback.* (See plate 290, page 210, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight 

 Years.) This picture was not in the original Catlin Gallery. 



Mr. Catlin gives the following description of Keokuk on horseback: 



Plate 290, Eee-o-kuk on horseback.— After I had painted the portrait (at Camp Des 

 Moines, now Montana, Iowa) at full length, and which I have already introduced, 



* The original sketch from which this picture was pointed is now owned by a gentleman in Phila* 



deiphia 



