He was a square-built, thick-set man, with high broad forehead, sandy hair, and unquailing blue eyes that looked out from under heavy, shaggy brows.[28] Clark had taken part with Cresap in his assault upon the second party of Shawnees.

On the following day the whole band of whites prepared to march off and attack Logan's camp at Yellow Creek, some fifty miles distant.

After going some miles they began to feel ashamed of their mission; calling a halt, they discussed the fact that the camp they were preparing to attack, consisted exclusively of friendly Indians, and mainly of women and children; and forthwith abandoned their proposed trip and returned home.

They were true borderers--brave, self-reliant, loyal to their friends, and good-hearted when their worst instincts were not suddenly aroused; but the sight of bloodshed maddened them as if they had been so many wolves.

Wrongs stirred to the depths their moody tempers, and filled them with a brutal longing for indiscriminate revenge.