David, Does any one on the list have or know where to obtain a roster of the men that accompanied Daniel Boone when he cut out the "Wilderness Road"?>> He didn't really "cut out" the Road. It was already there. It was a buffalo trail that was used by the Indians coming from the Ohio Valley into the SW VA region. It was known as the Great Warrior's Path, Boone Trail, or the Blue Grass Trail. From _Bear Grass_ by Dr. Fleenor: "Early in 1773 he returned to KY with Benjamin Cutbirth and . ." "he ran into Wm Russell from Castle's Woods and persuaded him to migrate also. " "At Wolf HIlls (Abingdon) he sent his eldest son, James aged 16, and John and Richard Mendenhall . . " "Russell . . sent his son Henry, aged 17, Isaac Crabtree and two of Russell's slaves named Charles and Adam on ahead with the plan" "Col. James Knox (later General and namesake of Knoxville, TN) lead forty hunters into KY along the Path. " I don't have much on him and the others. -eddie David. M. Burke deburgh@scescape.net