Letter from William Fleming to his wife, Nancy Fleming, describing his journey through Kentucky. Writes of a great amount of people "going out" and several small parties coming in, all "without molestation."
"By a gentleman lately arrived from the western country... not less than eighteen to twenty thousand emigrants have arrived in Kentucky within the last nine months by the different routs of the Ohio, Wilderness, &c."
Included pages covering backwoodsmen in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Also covers squirrel migration, slavery, caves, salt licks, etc.
