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"Col. Daniel Boon" print, certificate of authenticity, and historical notes
Item — Container: Map case 1, drawer 8, Folder: 9671
Identifier: 9671
Content Description
"Col. Daniel Boon" hand-colored print copy 66 of 392 by H. David Wright and Ted Franklin Belue published in 1992 by Pathfinder Press with certificate of authenticity and page of historical notes. This print is a reproduction of an original 1820 engraving by Chester Harding and James Otto Lewis.
Dates:
1992
Dixie Highway-Wilderness Road Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0177 SAA 173
Abstract
Shaped by Native American paths and old buffalo traces, the Wilderness Road was forged in 1775 by Daniel Boone for the Transylvania Company. The trail, and later the road, winded through the Cumberland Gap–a notch in the Appalachian Mountains located near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee–through the interior of Kentucky and to the Ohio River.
The Wilderness Road served as an avenue of westward migration for some 300,000 settlers and led to the establishment of the first...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920s-1930s