The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . )read. Fear ofIiuhans (hsturl)e(l tlieni. They were eoiiceriied al)out the weather;tlie roads were miry; the creeks were ugly and had steep banks, and\hv\ had to cross them many times. Sometimes tliey were swollenand the party had to tote their packs across on logs and swim thehorses. The packs came off in mid-stream; the horses ran away;and altogether there were at times such flustrations as wouldmake a less imperturbable man than Calk record a complaint. Thathe never uttered a serious one show^ed the school of experience inwdiich
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . )read. Fear ofIiuhans (hsturl)e(l tlieni. They were eoiiceriied al)out the weather;tlie roads were miry; the creeks were ugly and had steep banks, and\hv\ had to cross them many times. Sometimes tliey were swollenand the party had to tote their packs across on logs and swim thehorses. The packs came off in mid-stream; the horses ran away;and altogether there were at times such flustrations as wouldmake a less imperturbable man than Calk record a complaint. Thathe never uttered a serious one show^ed the school of experience inwdiich he had been Chapter IV The General Course and Features of the Road THE Wilderness Road began at the Block House in Virginia,which was situated five miles northeast of the South Fork ofthe Holston River at the mouth of Reedy Creek and nearly a milenorth of the North Carolina—now Tennessee—line. Its early im-portance lay in two facts: (1) It stood at the entrance to the wilder-ness; it was the last station on the road to Kentuckv in the Holstonsettlement. (-2) Also, it was the point where the road from the north-east from Virginia and Pennsylvania and the road from the southeastfrom North Carolina met. East of this point several roads convergedto form these two main thoroughfares; west of it there was one lonetrail to Kentucky, The great thoroughfare from the northeast resulted from twomain lines of travel, one coming out of Philadelpliia through Lan-caster, York, (iettysburg, Abbottstown and Hagerstown crossingthe Potomac at Wadkins Ferry, thence through Martinsburg, Md.,and up the Shenandoah
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