What a great sideline...can anyone document this!! LOL, :-) Sharon -----Original Message----- From: Edgar A. Howard <ehoward@conknet.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 12:16 AM Subject: Re: Pioneer Roads That was a great article on the Wilderness Road. This List has great info. And the best members. I had one question. For those who need lessons, this is how one humbly questions another's work.<g> << When Judge Henderson of N.C. traded a bunch of junk to the Cherokees for land in Ky., he hired Daniel Boone to recruit men and clear a road >> I don't know about the "bunch of junk" part. Somewhere I read that the Cherokee chief got a large amount of cash. I don't know that it was gold. The best part was that after the chief sold legal title to most of KY, he mentioned as Boone loaded up to leave that the Shawnee may take exception to who owns the land. In other words the deed was worthless and the Cherokee just pulled a fast one on the poor, dumb white man. <g> Boone fought the Shawnee for years over KY. Can anyone document the facts?? -eddie, sysop