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of Logan's family was surpassed in horror by many 

 of the massacres committed by the Indians about the 

 same time. The annals of the border are dark and 

 terrible. 



Among the characters who played the leaders' 

 parts in this short and tragic drama of the back- 

 woods few came to much afterward. Cresap died a 

 brave Revolutionary soldier. Of Greathouse we 

 know nothing; we can only hope that eventually 

 the Indians scalped him. Conolly became a viru- 

 lent tory, who yet lacked the power to do the evil 

 that he wished. Lewis served creditably in the 

 Revolution ; while at its outbreak Lord Dunmore 

 was driven from Virginia and disappears from our 

 ken. Proud, gloomy Logan never recovered from 

 the blow that had been dealt him; he drank deeper 

 and deeper, and became more and more an implaca- 

 ble, moody, and bloodthirsty savage, yet with noble 

 qualities that came to the surface now and then. 

 Again and again he wrought havoc among the fron- 

 tier settlers ; yet we several times hear of his saving 

 the lives of prisoners. Once he saved Simon Ken- 

 ton from torture and death, when Girty, moved by 

 a rare spark of compassion for his former comrade, 

 had already tried to do so and failed. At last he 

 perished in a drunken brawl by the hand of another 

 Indian. 



Cornstalk died a grand death, but by an act of 

 cowardly treachery on the part of his American 

 foes; it is one of the darkest stains on the check- 

 ered pages of frontier history. Early in 1777 he 



