A Familiar Wilderness: Searching for Home on Daniel Boone's Road

by Simon J. Dahlman

In 1775, renowned pioneer Daniel Boone was commissioned to blaze a road through the Appalachian and Cumberland Plateau regions as a fledgling American nation steadily pushed westward. What would come to be known as the Wilderness Road was the first major route into the West, and it allowed settlers to migrate northwest into Kentucky and later settle parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. In 2012, Jim Dahlman stopped to stretch his legs on a brief...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621904784
• ISBN13: 9781621904786
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"