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Included pages covering backwoodsmen in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Also covers squirrel migration, slavery, caves, salt licks, etc.

"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."

Letter from William Fleming to his wife, Nancy, describing his journey through Kentucky. Writes of a great amount of people "going out" and several small parties coming in, all "without molestation."

Warfield writes thanking Bullitt for helping bring enslaved people to Kentucky and asking for advice on traveling to the region.

A description of the routes of travel by which the pioneers and early settlers first came to Kentucky.