“The Mingo,” sculpted by J. W. Fiske (ca. 1920), depicts Logan at the time of his retaliatory raids into western Virginia in 1774.

ID: 327 ~ Source: Image courtesy Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com.

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Cast in zinc, with a height of six feet, this statue of Logan, was installed circa 1920 in the town of Williamson, West Virginia, the seat of Mingo County, which was named in honor of Logan's tribal affiliation.

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Horsehead Bottom & the Origins of Dunmore's War: Major Frontier War Triggered by Looting of “Thirty Horse Loads of Skins" and Killing of Shawnee Indians

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Explore the obscure and forgotten origins of Dunmore's War of 1774, which began with an attack on a long-forgotten Shawnee Indian Village known as Horsehead Bottom, located just north of modern-day…