Book #1 Daniel Boone and The Wilderness Road By Bruce Addington 1911 400 pages, illustrated and indexed Both Require Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher to View $12.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Wilderness-Road-Duo-Virginia-Kentucky-History_W0QQitemZ130340187120QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item1e58e16bf0 Chapters The Youth of Daniel Boone Boone's First Campaign Dark Days on the Border . Boone's Explorations in Kentucky The People who followed Boone Westward Ho ! . The Building of the Wilderness Road Boone as a Law-maker The Passing of Transylvania War-time in Kentucky The Campaigning of George Rogers Clark Boone among the Indians The Last Years of the War Pioneering in Watauga From Watauga to the Cumberland Annals of the Wilderness Road Kentucky after the Revolution . Boone's Last Years +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Book #2 The Wilderness Road A Description of the Routes of Travel By Which the Pioneers and Early Settlers First Came to Kentucky By Thomas Speed 1886 (ancestor John Speed travelled the Wilderness Road and settled in Louisville) 95 pages +++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wilderness Road ran from eastern Virginia through the mountain pass known as the Cumberland Gap, to the interior of Kentucky and through to the Ohio country. This road, first used by wandering herds of buffalo and, later, Indian hunters, was later utilized by Daniel Boone for the Transylvania Company. Boone's company traveled from the treaty ground at Fort Watauga, by way of the Cumberland Gap, through the mountains and canelands of Kentucky to the Kentucky River, where they chose to settle the fortified town of Booneboro. At first, the road was little more than a footpath or packhorse trail. Spasmodic but insufficient measures were taken by the Virginia government to enlarge and improve the crowded thoroughfare. After Kentucky became a separate state, renewed efforts to grade, widen, and reinforce the road began. Sections of the road were leased to contractors who, in consideration of materials and labor furnished to maintain the road, were authorized to erect gates or turnpikes across it and collect tolls from travelers. For more than half a century after Boone's party traveled the road, the Wilderness Road was a principal avenue for the movement of eastern immigrants and others to and from the early West. Only the Ohio River offered an alternative route to the West. Thousands of settlers moved west through these converging highways. The Wilderness Road is still an important interstate roadway and constitutes a part of U.S. Route 25, known as the Dixie Highway