The Wilderness Road, 1775

Learn how Daniel Boone helped open up the way to the west with the Wilderness Road. Find out why people needed a way to head west and how it changed our country. And read about the dangers faced by Boone and others who blazed the trail, as well as by all the families who later followed this trail through the Appalachian Mountains.

Written by Laura Purdie Salas
© 2003 Capstone Press
ISBN: 978-0736815611

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