Many of the accounts in the popular histories are sheer inventions.

Thus, in the "Chronicles of Border Warfare," by Alex.

S.Withers (Clarksburg, Va., 1831, p.

301), there is an absolutely fictitious account of a feat of the Kentucky Colonel Scott, who is alleged to have avenged St.
Clair's defeat by falling on the victorious Indians while they were drunk, and killing two hundred of them.

This story has not even a foundation in fact; there was not so much as a skirmish of the sort described.