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Wilderness Road. This was the trace marked out 

 by Boone, which to the present day remains a monu- 

 ment to his skill as a practical surveyor and engi- 

 neer. Those going along it went on foot, driving 

 their horses and cattle. At the last important fron- 

 tier town they fitted themselves out with pack-sad- 

 dles; for in such places two of the leading indus- 

 tries were always those of the pack-saddle maker 

 and the artisan in deer leather. When there was 

 need, the pioneer could of course make a rough pack- 

 saddle for himself, working it up from two forked 

 branches of a tree. If several families were to- 

 gether, they moved slowly in true patriarchal style. 

 The elder boys drove the cattle, which usually headed 

 the caravan ; while the younger children were packed 

 in crates of hickory withes and slung across the 

 backs of the old, quiet horses, or else were seated 

 safely between the great rolls of bedding that were 

 carried in similar fashion. The women sometimes 

 rode and sometimes walked, carrying the babies. 

 The men, rifle on shoulder, drove the pack-train, 

 while some of them walked spread out in front, 



Carolina, and were of almost precisely the same character as 

 those that went to Tennessee. See Imlay, p. 168. At the 

 close of the Revolutionary war, Tennessee and Kentucky 

 were almost alike in population. But after that time the 

 population of Kentucky rapidly grew varied, and the great 

 immigration of upper-class Virginians gave it a peculiar 

 stamp of its own. By 1796, when Logan was defeated for 

 governor, the control of Kentucky had passed out of the 

 hands of the pioneers ; whereas in Tennessee the old Indian 

 fighters continued to give the tone to the social life of the 

 State, and remained in control until they died. 



