n the refuge of twenty Conestoga Iroquois, in southern
Pennsylvania, and killed every one. The Conestogas were kin to the
other Mingos; but Logan made no war talk about it.

Simon Kenton, one of the most famous scouts of Daniel Boone's time in
Kentucky and Ohio, says that his form was "striking and manly," his
countenance "calm and noble."

Although Logan started out to walk the straight path of peace, sore
days were ahead of him. He moved westward again in 1770, erected a
cabin at the mouth of Beaver Creek, on the Ohio side of the Ohio River
about half way between Pittsburg of Pennsylvania and Wheeling of West
Virginia.

His cabin was kept wide open. Everybody spoke well of Logan. He
removed once more. The new cabin, "home of the white man," was built
on the Sciota River of central Ohio, among the Shawnees of Chief
Cornstalk's tribe. He and Chief Cornstalk were close friends. They
both stood out for peace. But Cornstalk had been a war chief also,
during the Pontiac up-rising. He and his warriors had obeyed the
Bloody Belt. His name, Cornstalk, meant that he was the support of the
Shawnee nation.

Now the evil days of Logan were close at hand.

Since the treaty signed with the twenty-two tribes of Pontiac, in 1765,
there had been general peace between the red men and the white men in
America. This peace was not to continue.

For instance, Bald Eagle, a friendly old Delaware chief, who frequently
came in, by canoe, to trade for tobacco and sugar, was killed, without
cause, by three white men, in southern Pennsylvania. They propped him,
sitting, in the stern of his canoe, thrust a piece of journey-cake, or
corn-bread, into his mouth, and set him afloat down the stream. Many
settlers who knew him well saw him pass and wondered why he did not
stop for a visit. Finally he was found to be dead, and was brought
ashore for burial.

There were bad Indians, too, who murdered and stole. For this, the
good Indians suffered. Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio were a
wild and lawless country.

Up to 1774 these tit-for-tats had not brought on war. But the French
of Canada and the Great Lakes country still secretly urged the Indians
to drive out the settlers. The Americans were becoming annoyed by the
harsh laws of the English king. There were English officials who
desired an Indian war. That would give the Colonists something else to
think about.

Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia, was one of