The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ver at Pineville; it hadgone south up Yellow Creek to Cumberland Gap and had continuedsouth from Cumberland Gap to its destination in the country of theCherokees on the Tennessee. All along the route the pioneer explorerfound buffalo paths, or Indian trails, which furnished him a path. But the explorer had first to locate these paths, and then hadto connect them up. Sitting with the topographical maps of thiscountry before one, in which every detail of the surface has beencarefully surveyed, and recorded, it seems an easy matter to
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ver at Pineville; it hadgone south up Yellow Creek to Cumberland Gap and had continuedsouth from Cumberland Gap to its destination in the country of theCherokees on the Tennessee. All along the route the pioneer explorerfound buffalo paths, or Indian trails, which furnished him a path. But the explorer had first to locate these paths, and then hadto connect them up. Sitting with the topographical maps of thiscountry before one, in which every detail of the surface has beencarefully surveyed, and recorded, it seems an easy matter to lay outthis trail. But when one undertakes actually to follow its courseover its two hundred and twenty miles length, through the innumer-able gaps by which it made its way through the mountains, acrossthe shallows in the many streams where it found fords, over the hillswhere it left the streams for a shorter way,—when one follows itthroughout its course from the Block House to Boonesborough andCrab Orchard, and remembers that the pioneers found this only. Moccasin Gap
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