Note 50 — JOURNAL OF ANDRÉ MICHAUX
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Michaux returned to Philadelphia by the well-known “Wilderness Road,” the chief means of exit from Kentucky. Parties frequently waited at Crab Orchard—the western terminus in Lincoln County—until enough had gathered to act as protection against the Indians. See Speed, “Wilderness Road,” Filson Club Publications, No. 2 (Louisville, 1886); also Hulbert, Historic Highways of America, vol. vi.—Ed.