The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ^^ilderness Road. At the start up east side of Cumberland Gap through Cumberland Gap and the mountains of Kentucky it wassimply a bridle j)ath. The road had been in use twenty years beforeit was made a wagon road, following an act of the Kentucky legisla-ture, in Before that time the 100,000 innnigrants to Kentuckyover the road had traveled most of its two hundred miles on foot oron horseback; and the best carrier of freight that could traversethe road was the horse with the pack saddle. Its entire length wasthrough a country
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ^^ilderness Road. At the start up east side of Cumberland Gap through Cumberland Gap and the mountains of Kentucky it wassimply a bridle j)ath. The road had been in use twenty years beforeit was made a wagon road, following an act of the Kentucky legisla-ture, in Before that time the 100,000 innnigrants to Kentuckyover the road had traveled most of its two hundred miles on foot oron horseback; and the best carrier of freight that could traversethe road was the horse with the pack saddle. Its entire length wasthrough a country where the rock is on, or near, the surface, and it isalways rough and stony. As one sees, for example, the boulders. Wilderness Road to Kanes Gap on Powell Mountain The General Course and Features of the Road [65] that are strewn along the road that succeeded the bridle path overCumberland Gap, he wonders how a wheeled vehicle ever negotiatedit. The worst sections of the road were bridle paths over which ahorse could make his way with difficulty. Speed and Hulburt say that the pioneer in locating his roadsavoided the water courses. This is not true of the Wilderness pioneer traveler was not afraid of hills, and did cut across themto save distance, but for nearly its whole length the Wilderness Roadfollowed the streams. It went up Moccasin Creek, down Trouble-some Creek, up Clinch River, up Stock Creek, down Wallen Creekdown Station Creek, down Yellow Creek, along the CumberlandRiver. And when it left the water-courses and took to the mountains,it went up the mountains and down them along streams that madethe grades easier. The traveler over the road, therefore, had con-stantly to meet the o
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