Charles Wyly and I have been comparing notes and he mentioned something I have wondered about. In Battle of King's Mountain 1780.....he wonders how 4 Colonels, coming from different states on different trails, all got there in time for the battle. I have wondered about, they hurried back to TN in time to fight off an Indian attack.... how did news travel - where there designated runners or something? All up and down the frontier, these men seemed to know so much about what was going on. I read where someone during this time frame - 1780s - had to go from the Cumberland group to Kentucky to get powder.....which was not far really, but just seems all these little groups sitting there surrounded by Indians, they always knew what was going on in the other groups. I have read about the Committee of Correspondence, etc. - how news was passed between the colonies on the coast. What about all these early settlements on the frontier? There just seems to have been so much going on ca 1780, and in different places, but each group knowing about the other. Did anyone in say Philadelphia, Jamestown, Williamsburg, etc. know what was going on in the backwoods? Just something I have always wondered about, how these people seemed to have been so 'in the know' about things going on far away. maybe I should ask....did these frontier men ever stay home? Mary