TALES, TRADITIONS AND ROMANCE OF BORDER AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES. BIG JOE LOGSTON. DEBORAH, THE MAIDEN WARRIOR. GEN. MORGAN'S PRAYER. BRAVERY OF THE JOHNSON BOYS. NEW YORK: BEADLE AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 118 WILLIAM STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by BEADLE AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. BIG JOE LOGSTON'S STRUGGLE WITH AN INDIAN. We have plentiful stories of encounters between the white man and the red, in which the fierce rivalry is contested with rifles, knives, or the swift foot-race for life; but it is seldom we hear of a genuine _fist-fight_ between the hardy men of the forest and their implacable foe. Only two or three such novel incidents occur in the history of the Western border. Joe Logston was one of the race of famous frontier men, the "Hunters of Kentucky," whose exploits have been told in story and sung in song. He could, to use his own words, "outrun, outhop, outjump, throw down, drag out and whip any man in the country"—which was saying a good deal for those days, when men like Brady, Wetzel, M'Clelland, Adam Poe and Kenton sprung up to face the dangers of the hour. Joe was a powerful fellow of six foot three in his stockings, and proportionately stout and muscular, with a handsome, good-natured face, and a fist like a sledge-hammer. Fear was a word of which he knew not the meaning, while to _fight_ was his pastime, particularly if his own scalp was the prize he fought for.