The Bond-Jones Duel and the Shooting of Rice Jones by Dr. James Dunlap: What Really Happened in Kaskaskia, Indiana Territory on 8 August and 7 December 1808?

[...]in bizarre fashion, he referred to Horace, Pluto, Astraea, Milton, Cervantes, and Cato. [...]his impudent abuse of the Doctor as a professional man." Since James Darwin Dunlap was born in Kaskaskia on 15 January 1809, about a month after the shooting, his mother probably provided him this version much later. According to historian Clarence Alvord, writing in 1920, "after the shooting, it is probable that the friends of Rice Jones took advantage of the incident and used his death to pursue an opportunity to better their political and financial situations; they could try to drive Michael Jones, the land commissioner, out of the territory.