. The Wilderness road to Kentucky, its location and features . lties. in Browns jouinal. for e\-am])le. which is I he most detailed and tlioutihtfnl account of theroad, not a com|)lainl of il is i;iven. In (alks pici un-xpie recordthere are difficullie> immmeraiile. hut no complaints of them. Some])arts of the road ai-e s])oken of as i)ut in no place is there asuggestion iii\en that their passage was a |)articular hardship. Thatis not. of couise. exidence in fa\or of the charactei of the road; it is,rathei, exicknce of the stury waiting at the Block House, or Cral) Oichard. until
. The Wilderness road to Kentucky, its location and features . lties. in Browns jouinal. for e\-am])le. which is I he most detailed and tlioutihtfnl account of theroad, not a com|)lainl of il is i;iven. In (alks pici un-xpie recordthere are difficullie> immmeraiile. hut no complaints of them. Some])arts of the road ai-e s])oken of as i)ut in no place is there asuggestion iii\en that their passage was a |)articular hardship. Thatis not. of couise. exidence in fa\or of the charactei of the road; it is,rathei, exicknce of the stury waiting at the Block House, or Cral) Oichard. until partiesof sufficient sti-cngth could lie collecteil to defend ihemselves againstattack i)y wandt-ring parties of Indians. They counted the strengthof parties hy the ninnliei of gim^ in them. Thus Brown men-tions that hi- ])arty set out from the Block House with \i men and. Jlic W il9] 10 guns. Speed lias i)ul)lislie(l many advertisements from the Ken-tucky Gazette that parties woukl start from Crab Orchard to gothrough the wilderness on definite dates, and some of these advertise-ments exhorted the men to come armed. They evidently did not setmuch store on their traveling companions who were without guns. It is interesting to consider how rapidly the early pioneertravelers used to cover this route on foot. In 1774, before the Wilder-ness Road was marked out, Boone and Michael St oner went from theClinch to the Falls of the Ohio and back, (about 700 miles,) on footin sixty-two days. Boones party in 1775 made the !^00 miles fromthe Block House to the site of Fort Estill in 15 days. William Brownrecords that it took him 7 days to reach the Head of Dix River fromthe Block House, (■200 miles,)
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