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beyond the utmost limits this man had reached, and 

 had hunted in the great bend of the Cumberland 

 and in the woodland region of Kentucky, famed 

 among the Indians for the abundance of the game. 4 



is very interesting, and Mr. Rives has done a real service in 

 publishing it. Walker and five companions were absent six 

 months. He found traces of earlier wanderers probably 

 hunters. One of his companions was bitten by a bear ; three 

 of the dogs were wounded by bears, and one killed by an 

 elk ; the horses were frequently bitten by rattlesnakes ; once 

 a bull-buffalo threatened the whole party. They killed 13 

 buffaloes, 8 elks, 53 bears, 20 deer, 150 turkeys, and some 

 other game. 



4 Hunters and Indian traders visited portions of Kentucky 

 and Tennessee years before the country became generally 

 known even on the border. (Not to speak of the French, 

 who had long known something of the country, where they 

 had even made trading posts and built furnaces, as see Hay- 

 wood, etc.). We know the names of a few. Those who went 

 down the Ohio, merely landing on the Kentucky shore, do 

 not deserve mention; the French had done as much for a 

 century. Whites who had been captured by the Indians, 

 were sometimes taken through Tennessee or Kentucky, as 

 John Sailing in 1730, and Mrs. Mary Inglis in 1756 (see 

 " Trans- Alleghany Pioneers," Collins, etc.). In 1654 a cer- 

 tain Colonel Wood was in Kentucky. The next real explorer 

 was nearly a century later, though Doherty in 1690, and 

 Adair in 1730, traded with the Cherokees in what is now 

 Tennessee. Walker struck the headwaters of the Kentucky 

 in 1750; he had been to the Cumberland in 1748. He made 

 other exploring trips. Christopher Gist went up the Ken- 

 tucky in 1751. In 1756 and 1758 Forts Loudon and Chissel 

 were built on the Tennessee headwaters, but were soon 

 afterward destroyed by the Cherokees. In 1761, '62, '63, 

 and for a year or two afterward, a party of hunters under 

 the lead of one Wallen, hunted on the western waters, going 

 continually further west. In 1765 Croghan made a sketch of 

 the Ohio River. In 1766 James Smith and others explored 

 Tennessee. Stoner, Harrod, and Lindsay, and a party from 



