If local tradition and place names are any indication, Black Hawk spent the bulk of his time sitting on large rocks and gazing out over the Rock River. From Black Hawk’s Watch Tower at Rock Island to Indian Rock and Indian Head Rock thirty or forty miles upriver, to the bluff at Eagle’s Nest and Squaw Rock still further up the river, if there is a place to stand along the Rock River and a scenic view to admire, some guidebook, website, or area resident will assure you that Black Hawk is said to have enjoyed it.
—MICHAEL SHERFY, “Narrating Black Hawk,” 2005