id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 41143 Hulbert, Archer Butler Boone's Wilderness Road .txt text/plain 34167 1744 74 man's road by the first white army that ever crossed the Ohio River into Virginians secured a grant of land south of the Ohio and directly west troops which conquered the land between the Ohio River and the Great at a new settlement at the mouth of Otter Creek on the Kentucky River Tennessee River to the Shawnee Indian towns on the Ohio, which path they north, crossing some of the head branches of the Kentucky River over a the Cumberland Mountains and the Ohio River, now the state of Kentucky. and Kanawha Rivers, where the Ohio Company's grant of land was made. Boone's Road followed this path northward, whereupon, leaving the Indian Road was attacked by Indians not far from the Kentucky border. of the Indian nations which lay between the Ohio River and the Great first portion of the land north of the Ohio River to come under the ./cache/41143.txt ./txt/41143.txt