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The Winning of the West, Volume Two

CHAPTER VII
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276, 280, 300, 333.

Boon and Todd both are explicit that there were one hundred and eighty-two riflemen, all on horseback, and substantially agree as to the loss of the frontiersmen.

Later reports underestimate both the numbers and loss of the whites.

Boon's Narrative, written two years after the event, from memory, conflicts in one or two particulars with his earlier report.

Patterson, writing long afterwards, and from memory, falls into gross errors, both as to the number of troops and as to some of them being on foot; his account must be relied on chiefly for his own adventures.


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