Boone's Wilderness Road

Archer Butler Hulbert's 'Boone's Wilderness Road' takes readers on a journey through the most desolate country imaginable, following the longest, blackest, and hardest road of pioneer days in America. Daniel Boone, the frontiersman who broke the road open, is remembered in the road's name, the Wilderness Road, a wilderness of laurel thickets that lay between Kentucky and Cumberland Gap. In this volume, Hulbert explores the first social movement into the lower Ohio Valley, Henderson's Transylvania Company, and the struggle of the Kentucky settlements against the British and their Native American allies, among other aspects of the West's story.