ing on, 139–144; announcements of parties formed to go over, 140–143; Indians attack pioneers on, 142–143; forts guarding, 149; Revolutionary struggle along, 149–159; bravery of Watauga frontiersmen kept open the, 155; Roosevelt on value of keeping open the, 155; James Lane Allen on importance of, 177–178; strategic value of, 182–192; influenced question of Mississippi navigation, 186–187; Kentucky's growth influenced by, 188–190; old Northwest benefited by, 190; improvement of, 194–205; description of typical travelers on, 195–196; proposal to make thirty feet wide, 203; Daniel Boone asserts claim to having first blazed, 203; Kentucky guards and improves, 203; Daniel Boone writes Governor Shelby for contract to improve, 203–204; tollgates on, 204; present-day condition of, 204; James Lane Allen on present condition of, 204–205; James Lane Allen's description of Cumberland Gap, 205–207.
- York, Pennsylvania, to Harrisburg, Dickens's experiences on, 12, 172–178.
- Zane's Trace: taverns on, 10, 156–157; Act of Congress authorizing, 11, 156; blazed, 158–159; description of (1797), 159; bridge on,
