Note 1 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 8)

The “Wilderness Road” (or “trace”) was the overland highway through Cumberland Gap. It was sometimes called “Boone’s trace.” From North Carolina and Southern Virginia, it was the nearest road to Kentucky; to those living farther north, the Ohio was the favorite highway. While the river was an easier path, it was more dangerous on account of Indians: but travelers of the early period who had come down the Ohio, preferred returning east by the Wilderness Road to poling up stream. See Thomas Speed’s Wilderness Road, in the Filson Club publications (Louisville, 1886.)––R. G. T.