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Identifier: wildernessroadto00puse (find matches)
Title: The Wilderness road to Kentucky, its location and features
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Pusey, William Allen, 1865-1940
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Publisher: New York : George H. Doran company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTION COLLECTIONS, VOL XXIII KS. Hutcliins Map WISCONSIN HISTORIC.Capl. Thos. Hutcliins Map niLKPER SERIES. VOL IV The J in jinrtdiicc of the Scttlciiicnt of KciiiiichU (3) the frontier was witliin 100 miles of the Atlantic coast; as Speedpointed out, the Wyoming Massacre in Pennsylvania in 177S occurredwithin 100 miles of Xew York City. Compared witli the actualextent of what is now the Tnited States, the Colonies at the begin-ning of the war stretched as a strip of settled territory along theAtlantic border. Hutchins map, published by the British (iovernment in 1778,indicates clearly the advantageous j^osition of the British before thesettlement of Kentucky. Considering its date, it depicts with remark-able accuracy the geography of this territory — far more accuratelythan Filson gives the geography of Kentucky. For example, the mapshows the Indian village of Chicago, the prairies of Illinois, )\(uscleShoals on the Tennessee River, the fine lands of Centr

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