FOOTNOTES:
[1] Johnson’s First Explorations of Kentucky (Filson Club Publications, No. 13), contains the journals of Walker and Gist used in connection with this chapter.
[2] Johnson’s First Explorations of Kentucky (Filson Club Publications No. 13), p. 59.
[3] First Explorations of Kentucky (Filson Club Publications No. 13), pp. 85-86.
[4] MSS. of Major Pleasant Henderson in the Draper Collection, Madison, Wisconsin; Kentucky MSS., vol. 2, fol. 23.
[5] Draper Collection: Kentucky MSS. vol. 1.
[6] The maternal grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.
[7] This copy of the journal was made from the original by Mary Catharine Calk, granddaughter of Thomas Calk, Jr.
[8] Draper Collection: Kentucky MSS., vol. 4, cc. p. 85.
[9] The Wilderness Road: pp. 18-20.
[10] Draper Collection: Kentucky MSS., vol. 1, fol. 215.
[11] Id.
[12] Draper Notes, Wisconsin Historical Society, vol. 2; id., Martin to Gov. Harrison, Trip of 1860, vol. 3, p. 27.
[13] Draper Notes, vol. 2, p. 56.
[14] Id., pp. 126-127.
[15] Kentucky Gazette: no. 33, April 12, 1788.
[16] Id., no. 36, May 3, 1788.
[17] Id.
[18] Id., no. 38, May 17, 1788.
[19] Id., vol. ii, no. 10, November 1, 1788.
[20] Id., vol. ii, no. 14, November 29, 1788.
[20*] See Historic Highways of America, vol. ii, note 32.
[21] Allen: The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, pp. 251-252.
[22] Speed: The Wilderness Road, p. 30; cf. pp. 42, 43; cf. Roosevelt: The Winning of the West (1899), vol. i, p. 316.
[23] Draper Collection: Kentucky MSS., vol. 23, cc. pp. 19-24.
[24] Speed: The Wilderness Road, p. 30. Cf. American Pioneer, vol. ii, pp. 219-220; St. Clair Papers, vol. ii, p. 246; Life of Nathaniel Massie, p. 121; Collins’s History of Kentucky, vol. ii, p. 327.
[25] Draper’s Notes, vol. II, Trip 1860, iii, p. 56.
[26] Cf. Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. 1, p. 145.
[27] Kentucky Gazette: vol. ii, no. 9, October 25, 1788.
[28] The Wilderness Road, pp. 48-50.
[29] Collins: History of Kentucky, vol. ii, p. 242.
[30] Id., p. 213.