As this letter is very important, and gives for the first time the Indian side, I print it in the Appendix almost in full.

The accounts of course conflict somewhat; chiefly as to the number of cabins burnt--from five to forty, and of horses captured--from thirty to three hundred.

They agree in all essential points.

But as among the whites themselves there is one serious question.

Logan's admirers, and most Kentucky historians, hold Bowman responsible for the defeat; but in reality (see Butler, p.