. The Wilderness road to Kentucky, its location and features . he had under-taken to lead a party for settlement, but had been turned back by thedisastrous encounter with the Indians when his son James was .seems likely that between 1771 and 1773 he made two other tripsto Kentucky. In June, 1774, he had. with Michael Stoner, madehis famous trip to the Falls of the Ohio as Governor Dunmoresagent to warn siuveying parties in Kentucky of the outbreak of 17 [18] The ]\iUhriH:ss lioad la Kcnhich// liiiliaii liii>.l ilil icN. ()ii llii> joiiriify lie ;iii(l Sloiicr llic hip o
. The Wilderness road to Kentucky, its location and features . he had under-taken to lead a party for settlement, but had been turned back by thedisastrous encounter with the Indians when his son James was .seems likely that between 1771 and 1773 he made two other tripsto Kentucky. In June, 1774, he had. with Michael Stoner, madehis famous trip to the Falls of the Ohio as Governor Dunmoresagent to warn siuveying parties in Kentucky of the outbreak of 17 [18] The ]\iUhriH:ss lioad la Kcnhich// liiiliaii liii>.l ilil icN. ()ii llii> joiiriify lie ;iii(l Sloiicr llic hip onfoot from tlic (liiicli Hivrr lo the |-;ill> of llic Ohio iiiid ri-tiiiii insi\t\-tu() I lays. \\licii. I licrctorc, Iltiidcrxoii ciiuaucd liiiii |o Ia\ oil a road toIvCnluckv. Hooiic \\a> i)rolial)ly. iimrc than any one cUc. familiarwitli llic coiir-ic that this road should follow . Bnl it was not Itooncs. Tal)let m;irl<iiif; supjxjsod site ol killing of Hooncs son James in Oct. 177;!. .\(tn;il site was |)rol)al)ly on Wallen I{i(i^< a( liiiveineiit to have discovered the way throuiih (iiiiiherland (iap,and when he laid oH iiis road in 177.) he was only one of many ho were familiar with the route. The credit of discovering the waythroiifrh Cuniherhuid (iap helonjis to Dr. Thomas Walker. Hefound the way down Powell \ alley, tliioiiiili ( uniherland Cm]}, andthrouiih the izaj) at Pineville. where the ( iiml)erland liiver l*inc Mmnilain. lie had. in fact. I w<-nty-fi\( ycais lietorei;i\en the names to Iowcll Ui\-er. (unilicrlanil (iap, and the (unilicr- Boones Part in flic Wilderness lioad [10] lainl River, names wliich were familiar when Boone started on hisfamous road-making enterprise. Boones attention had prol)al)ly first been called to the road toKentucky through Powell Aalley and Cumberland (lap by .lolinFinley, whom Boone had met in Braddocks campai
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