e harder than ever,
in full force, and drive the Long Knives back, or peace might come and
all Kentucky be over-run by the Long Knife soldiers. (Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!
Those are good words. Our white brother speaks well.)

There were more speeches, but none better; and the council had agreed.
Runners were sent out to carry the news and bid all Indians to rally
for a great blow upon the Long Knives. The meeting-place should be at
Pickaway, or Chillicothe as it was also called, after the other towns
of Chillicothe. Little Chillocothe had been destroyed two years ago by
the gallant General George Rogers Clark.

Two armies were formed: one of about three hundred warriors, to march
against West Virginia; the other of about four hundred warriors, to
march into Kentucky.

The Kentucky army contained mainly Shawnees and Wyandots, with a
sprinkling of British white men from Detroit. It was commanded by
Captain William Caldwell, who had for his lieutenants Alexander McKee,
Matthew Elliott, and the three Girty brothers, Simon, George and James.
And there were many chiefs.

In the night of August 15 they posted themselves around Bryant's (or
Bryan's) Station of north central Kentucky about five miles north of
little Lexington.

This Bryant's Station was a lonely post, and well exposed to attack.
From it north and east to the Ohio River and West Virginia the country
lay open and little settled.

Bryant's had been founded in 1779 by the Bryant brothers, from North
Carolina. William Bryant was really its father. He had married Daniel
Boone's sister, in North Carolina.

The Bryants settled here and formed Bryant's Station. Last year
William himself had been killed, not far from the settlement, while he
and a party were scouting. The Indians had lured him within reach, by
tinkling a horse bell that they had taken. But he and a companion
managed to reach home; there he died.

The killing of William Bryant, brother-in-law to Daniel Boone, and a
general leader, was a sad blow to the settlement.

Forty log cabins formed Bryant's Station. They were placed in two
lines facing inward, and connected by a stout picket fence or palisade.
This beautiful morning of August 16 everybody was astir unusually
early. An alarm call had issued from the region of the Kentucky River,
twenty miles in the south. The Boonesborough country was again being
invaded. Estill's Station had been entered--in pursuing the enemy
Captain Estill himself