, the Ohio was the favorite highway. While the river was
an easier path, it was more dangerous on account of Indians:
but travelers of the early period who had come down the Ohio,
preferred returning east by the Wilderness Road to poling up
stream. See Thomas Speed's _Wilderness Road_, in the Filson
Club publications (Louisville, 1886.)--R. G. T.

[2] Col. William Christian, who served in Lord Dunmore's
War. He was killed in April, 1786. John May, writing to
Governor Henry from Crab Orchard, Ky., April 19, says: "The
Indians about the Wabash had frequently been on Bear Grass, and
Col. Christian, in order to induce others to go in pursuit of
them, has upon every occasion gone himself. And last week he
with about twenty men crossed the Ohio, and overtook three
Indians, whom they killed; but his men not obeying his orders,
which were to rush altogether on them, he with three others
only overtook the Indians, and was so unfortunate as to receive
a mortal wound himself and Capt. Isaac Kellar received
another."--R. G. T.

[3] The time for rendezvous was September 10, 1786 (letter
of Col. Levi Todd to Governor Henry, August 29).--R. G. T.

[4] Clark was roundly scored in contemporary accounts, for
being much of the time under the influence of liquor. His
futile expedition was against the Indians around Vincennes,
while Logan's party, which appears practically to have revolted
from Clark, had a successful campaign against the towns on Mad
River. See Green's _Spanish Conspiracy_, ch. v., and
Roosevelt's _Winning of the West_, iii., _passim_.--R. G. T.

[5] Col. Benjamin Logan to Governor Randolph, Dec. 17, 1786:
"Sept. 14, 1786, I received orders [from Clark] to collect a
sufficient number of men in the District of Kentucky to march
against the Shawnee's Towns. Agreeable to said orders I
collected 790 men, and on the 6th of October I attacked the
above mentioned Towns, killed ten of the chiefs of that nation,
captured thirty-two prisoners, burnt upwards of two hundred
dwelling houses and supposed to have burnt fifteen thousand
bushels of corn, took some horses and cattle, killed a number
of hogs, and took near one thousand pounds value of Indian
furniture, and the quantity of furniture