The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . The first view of Cumberland Gap from the east, on the Wilderness Road, just alterthe road has rounded the foot of Pinnacle Mountain very base that the Gap itself comes into view. The only point atwhich one gets a good distant view of the Gap from its east side isfrom the southeast where the present town of Cimiberland Gap islocated. Coming down the west side of the mountain from CumberlandGap the road passed towards the south around the })ase of themountain behind the present old brewery at Middlesboro, Ivy., andemerged into the va
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . The first view of Cumberland Gap from the east, on the Wilderness Road, just alterthe road has rounded the foot of Pinnacle Mountain very base that the Gap itself comes into view. The only point atwhich one gets a good distant view of the Gap from its east side isfrom the southeast where the present town of Cimiberland Gap islocated. Coming down the west side of the mountain from CumberlandGap the road passed towards the south around the })ase of themountain behind the present old brewery at Middlesboro, Ivy., andemerged into the valley of Big Yellow Creek at the point where thetown of Middlesboro now stands. Here there is a vallev five or sixmiles in diameter wdiich forms a fine park, surrounded on all sides [120] The Wilderness Road to Kentucky by mountains. Yellow Creek has cut the only easy exit from thisvalley. When the first explorers passed through Cuml)erland Gap theyfound the path which the Indians had made. This was the WarriorsPath, the Indian path from Lake Erie to the Ten
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