Boone's Wilderness Road

PAGE PREFACE 11 I. THE PILGRIMS OF THE WEST 19 II. THE FIRST EXPLORERS 48 III. ANNALS OF THE ROAD 78 IV. KENTUCKY IN THE REVOLUTION 145 V. AT THE END OF BOONE'S ROAD 175

No English colony in America looked upon the central West with such jealous eye as Virginia. The beautiful valley of the _Oyo_--the Indian exclamation for "Beautiful"--which ran...

The first real explorations of the great territory secured by Virginia at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix were made by Dr. Thomas Walker, who later so skilfully managed Virginia's pa...

With the close of Pontiac's Rebellion and the passing away of the war clouds which had hung so long over the West, ten thousand eyes turned longingly across the Alleghenies and...

History was fast being made in Kentucky when the Revolutionary struggle reached the crisis in 1775 at Concord and Lexington. South of the Ohio River Virginia's new empire was fi...

On the nineteenth of April, 1775, the rumble of the running fire at Lexington and Concord told that the farmers of New England had at last precipitated the struggle which had be...