Wilderness Road

noun

, American History.

a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.

The men began to make the famous Wilderness Road that was to lead to Kentucky.

It was called the "Wilderness Road," and over it thousands of emigrants went into Kentucky to settle.

Along the way a pleasant reminder of an almost forgotten past is that of the Wilderness Road Weavers busy at loom and wheel.

This is still known as the Wilderness Road, along which so many thousand settlers afterward made their way.

Logan and his forest rangers, like knights of old, guarded the Wilderness Road.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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