Indiana Historical Society publications . soe Wusa-pinuk. Yellow Banks were so named by reason of the colorof the river banks, at Owensboro, Very likely this trail crossed the Buffalo trace in the envir-ons of Otwell, perhaps near the three mounds north of Otwell,for they would be a natural In time a militaryroad was cut out from the crossing toward New Albany byway of the Indian ford across Patoka river, at Jasper. This 87 Indian camps along White River, see Browns Western Gazet-teer, p. 65; Dillons Historical Notes of the Northwestern Territory,pp. no, in, 181 and 182
Indiana Historical Society publications . soe Wusa-pinuk. Yellow Banks were so named by reason of the colorof the river banks, at Owensboro, Very likely this trail crossed the Buffalo trace in the envir-ons of Otwell, perhaps near the three mounds north of Otwell,for they would be a natural In time a militaryroad was cut out from the crossing toward New Albany byway of the Indian ford across Patoka river, at Jasper. This 87 Indian camps along White River, see Browns Western Gazet-teer, p. 65; Dillons Historical Notes of the Northwestern Territory,pp. no, in, 181 and 182; Dillons Indiana, pp. 164 and 165; EsareysIndiana, pp. 79 and 246; Cockrums Pioneer History of Indiana, pp. 58,59, 127, 156, 167, 172, 477 and 478. 88 Wilsons History of Dubois County, p. 158. 89 Cockrums Pioneer History of Indiana, pp. 205, 206 and 214; Indi-ana Historical Societys Publication, Vol. 2, p. 131, Vol. 6, pp. 290 and296; Early Travels in Indiana, p. 27. 90 History of Pike and Dubois Counties, p. 270. 386 Trails and Surveys. w < Oh Trails and Surveys 387 may have started from a stockade ordered built, July 11,1812, or perhaps the stockade was ordered built at the junctionof these two The Rome trail united with the YellowBanks trail near In his order to have a military roadcut out, General Harrison, on August 20, 1807, wrote CaptainHargrove as follows: The trace just south of the Patoka river opened some timeago, will be extended from the Yellow Banks trace, thirty orforty miles east. You had better have the same men go overthis route as soon as Severns is through with the new surveyfarther south. Mr. Severns says that in going near the Patokariver many abrupt banks and deep gorges are met with. In-form him that it is not necessary to make a straight line butto blaze and mark it that it can be easily traced. It is not in-tended for wheeled vehicles or sleds to pass over but for footsoldiers only. The logs need not be moved but the brush hadbe
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