Daniel Boone Opens the Wilderness Road

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KET world explorers daniel boone the appalachian mountains the great pathfinder cumberland gap trail kentucky boonesborough wilderness road kentucky river cumberland river cherokee richard henderson Transylvania Company land purchase Transylvania Purchase Benjamin Logan Wilderness Road Kentucky history Kentucky frontier frontier life pioneer life
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Daniel Boone Opens the Wilderness Road

In March 1775, Colonel Richard Henderson and other North Carolinians formed the Transylvania Company and purchased from the Cherokees all of the lands between the Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers. Daniel Boone was hired to lead an advance party to open a path from Cumberland Gap all the way to the south bank of the Kentucky River. The path would be known as the Wilderness Road.
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