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Identifier: wildernessroadtopuse (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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Contour Interval 100 ffwi ■ Big Spring to Powell River ■ If: .■(■ UliE INTSiiroP KE:NT1 i C KY- -VIB GiMI A
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Powell River to Block House Chapter V The Detailed l^ocation of the Roadfrom the Blockhouse to Cumberland Gap THE Wilderness Road^ has a very considerable literature. JamesLane Allen has idealized it in his Blue Grass Region of Kentucky.At least three books have been written upon it. The solid contri-bution to its history is The Wilderness Road, by Thomas Speed,published by the Filson Club of Kentucky. Hulburt in his HistoricHighways has devoted a volume to Boones Wilderness Road;and Addington Bruce, in his Daniel Boone and the WildernessRoad, has given us another work in which the old road is the centraltopic. The road also has the distinction of having its course indi-cated at numerous points by tablets which were erected by theDaughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina, Virginiaand Kentucky to mark Boones trail from the Yadkin to Boones-borough. No one has, however, recorded its location accurately inthe literature. Speed does not undertake to give the location of thero

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