 At Judge David Rorer's suggestion, publisher James G. Edwards changed "The Iowa Patriot" newspaper's name to "The Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot" in tribute to his friend, Chief Black Hawk.Rorer is said to have found the name in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," but Edwards proposed the nickname to "...rescue from oblivian a momento , at least of the name of the old chief.