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.doneu. However, woone matie an-jiueuiu,i.ciy uu auunuui ul “JUt trip to Kentucky the follow-(dangers from hostile Indians.i am' anyj hey, mc and! :ch-in-yedBoone Hazes Trail Through Laurel For Transylvania Bo.kJ 1 1 JU\joined lies wl:By now, Daniel Boonc'a fame asa hunter, woodsman and scouthad lood ver nds had Iren i■hey I was widespread. Because of this, ajaiid possible because of his knowl-omicdge of the Indians and the In-few tiian mind, he was engaged to blaze a trail from North Carolina to the Kentucky river, to be followed by Col. Richard Henderson, whose Transylvania Company had concluded a treaty with the Chero-thc crossing in 17 days.Traveled Indian Paths And Buffalo TrailsThe white man first coming through the great Kentucky Wil-Ulerncss did not find it trackless. The Indian and the buffalo had preceded him, the former by thousands and the latter by hundreds of jrcars, E.vcn then he wassafety, famitic otic liu who r lies tl rarely struck passed do re cl This l-only ? chard, familit campc cept « dians.Am-traveling their foot paths, mostly iKentujkee Indians, giving them a very along. the streams, and wider trailsIwcre1 ot* large boundary south of the Ken-andtef,he-rrgetheyextending into Ten-tucky river, nejfsce.Boone's task, as related in autobiography, was that he f4nn-hisover mount a ins and along theirridges, respectively. It was along SpotsLewisthese Indian paths und buffalo’ Janie*i trails that Daniel Boone and com-!pany traveled and blazed the tracedertook to mark out a road in Uiclhat lnce hjJs bnrno hjK name_and passage from the settlementit a the theythrough the wild nr ness in Kentucky, with such assistance as Ii though necessary to employ forThey could not have been lung dcmbrush ho-antslsuch an important undertaking.”layed by the difficult yond Rockcastle.Along with other big game, white man found large rovingtherTrace Dr. D00 h to 17! Me 11 it waTliej„is party of twenty-odd pcrfwna; q£ thc buffalo throilghout seventrth,|wa-s augmented by CapL William|thc wiltternesSj an(1 wcre not long!been°™|TWcUy’S party of nine, including cxlerm5nating them,ear|FeIix Walker who 111 decribmgj ood-lthe trip placed the departing date.“New Settlements20,00( Bocared• On fn Earnest waysfrom Long Island at about March With the blazing of the trace1 rcgUi| !« 110, 1775. from North Carolina to the Kcit-|j;ewthe; \yrote Felix Walker, “About the;tucky river at Booncsboro, the set-;tt,js c d at 10th of March we put off from HeinenI of Kentucky began 5n!oil}iei Island, marked our track earnest. Collectively they bccame[s^anfjsta-n atLongwith our hatchets, coming to a,the “New Settlements while the'acros.Lr 73 d inSlOrth watcr course called Rockcastle'mother colonies became the “Old .other river, killed a fine bear on our [Settlements.” James JUrrod’s set-;jJcip_ way, camped all night and had an tlemcnt of Harrodstnwn had heen!j-or excellent supper. That, without'dismpted by warring Indians, but■ Ways doubt, was a Laurel county bear.!with the return of his people in'given Walker continued, In leaving thatjl775 this hccamo the first pcr-j Ing river wc had to encounter and eutjmanent settlement of the r,lt;sWjrt0gei our way through a country of a-;West. !Jonesbout 20 miles, entirely covered with j Groups coming to _ Ken tucky jaTl(J dead brush, which we found a dif-'would gather on thc Virginia and ficult and laborous task.” But they [North Carolina frontiers till there d . had gotten through this difficult would be enough nbie-bodied raen!tackc dead brush (I venture to suggest [to protect them from savages that;romu] it might have been deadened by:mtght be lurking along the trace-atcdithc same storm that had Mocked to take their belongings and their, 1 Dr. Thomas Walker's way through scalps. Before starting the _ trip a nearby section 25 years previous-.they would organize as a military ^ ly), through thirty miles of thick organization, electing a “captain t cane and reed, and more miles and at time other officers, incltid-;' V through the: “plains of Kentucky jinff ft “treasurer whose particular to about Fort Estill, on March 27.!job would bo to hold nnd protect.mmudgc now-i lips jhter rc of allnilics g tobeenpiardnotfromhavengerT!tion)1775, There they were attacked by-their money and othermore pre-jniostIndians killing Capt. Twctty and[cious objects «lrt.«„JthSushis negro servant, ami seriously' And then, larger self-sufficient wounding Walker. They had made {groups would be organized in their | I
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London Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1919
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