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FIRST EXPLORATIONS OF DANIEL BOONE IN KENTUCKY Author(s): Willard Rouse Jillson Source: Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 20, No. 59 (MAY, 1922), pp. 204-206 Published by: Kentucky Historical Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23372914 . Accessed: 27/10/2014 17:00
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204

FIRST

EXPLORATIONS
By Willard

OF DANIEL
Rouse Jillson,

BOONE
Sc. D.*

IN KENTUCKY.

The

name

Daniel

Boone

will

forever

That

Boone

did not know he was in he wintered at the

be

linked

with Road,

Cumberland

Wilderness

Gap, the and the middle waters Until that recent Boones to and have hun been ex Vir in set

Kentucky,

though

well known Salt Lick ten miles west of Prestonsburg on the left fork of Middle Creek in Floyd County, is an interest ing disclosure explorations
take precedence

of the Kentucky River. ly it has been assumed Kentucky dreds or explorations eastern this rugged less

were district, history

limited

concerning in Kentucky
by two

these his first which
over

now
his

of pages

of interesting his

and more

years

dependable concerning

well

authenticated

adventures

in1 the

written tling ginias

pioneering resulted through

Cumberland region. ly

ploits which ultimately Central “back Kentucky door.”

River Gap—Kentucky The Salt Lick Boone fortunate has been located by the with the at the Postof at

selected

“With the excep tion of a recent book** or two, the ex tensive Boone gest into for him Kentucky researches bibliography any earlier those than fails to sug explorations which he

writer who is well acquainted

district on the farm of Ben Hale of middle ofice. this place Creek near Goodloe in the

mouth of Salt Lick Fork of the left fork The cause of the Salt Spring

made through Cumberland Recent manuscript library of

Gap in 1769. writer in the the by the late Society Dr. of the at of

is found The salt

geological water

structure of the locality which is a basin syncline. or brackish had its origin in the original connate or marine waters of deposition contained in the local and Pottsville which Sandstones, comprise the Shales, Coals

Lyman C. Draper Wisconsin State Madison, hitherto ever, in bringing

in the archives Historical

Wisconsin, unpublished

have resulted, how history showing

to light two pages

surficial rocks of this region. There is presented reproductions the Draper herewith photostat as well as a typed copy of Volume 2B 152

that Boone made his first, a hunting trip into Kentucky,
the headwaters

in the year 1767, through
country of the Levisa or

manuscript

West

fork of the Big Sandy

River.

♦Member of the Filson His Club, Kentucky torical etc. Society, •»Daniel Boone, and Thwaites, Appleton, Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road, Bruce, Macmillan.

153, pages 140-141, which proves be yond a doubt that Boone first saw Ken tucky on the headwaters Fork of the Big Sandy of the Levisa Incident River.

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tive

Pagre from to Boones

C. Drapers Dr. Lyman manuscript in Kentucky. first explorations

library,

Madison,

Wisconsin,

rela

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tive

Pag-e from to Boones

C. Drapers Dr. Lyman manuscript first explorations in Kentucky.

library,

Madison,

Wisconsin,

rela

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First

Explorations

of Daniel

Boone

in Kentucky.

205

ally there is thus added another interest ing and illustrious chapter to the real history of the Big historians. Sandy Region which has been so long neglected by Kentucky

are the guides which God has set for the its course that this stream must flow into the Ohio, pursued their journey along its banks, until, as they thought, they had travel ed well nigh a hundred miles, and had penetrated of the probably pursuing Spring, considerably to the westward Cumberland Mountains ; when striking it, they a buffalo-path, came to the and Salt stranger in the wilderness. and Hill, concluding from So Boone

uaniel The

Boone—Kentucky Manuscript Lyman torical consin, C. Draper, Society Madison, consin. Library State of Wis Wis

Data of His Dr.

in

which some twenty-eight years afterwards was known as Youngs Salt Works. Situated ten miles directly west
mucñ ex

As

iíoone

s mind

had

been

ercised the past two years with the hope dû finding a country more desirable than Carolina, and the Florida Exploration bad resulted so unfavorably, he now be gan to bend his thoughts seriously to wards making a determined attempt to discover the fair region of Kentucky, so fascinatingly portrayed to him by Find lay Hill a dozen years gone by. William coun yet remained in the Yadkin

of the present town of Prestonsburg, on the Lick Fork of Middle Creek, a tri butary Sandy, Eastern
“Here

of the West in Floyd

or Louisa

Fork

of

County, in the extreme part of Kentucky.
they were caught in a severe

mow storm, which :amp, and “emain

which issued bluff on

compelled them to they at length concluded to all winter. The Salt Spring, from the foot of a rocky the southern bank of the

try, and to him Boone fully made known Hill entered his plans and wishes. heartily
were made

into
for

them,
the

and
arduous

preparations
enterprise.

stream, proved more valuable to them than mines of the precious metals, for it was the means of enticing buffaloes and other animals there in great numbers, to drink the waters or lick the brackish soil; and all Boone next to husbanding was, as Peter was and Hill had to do, their ammunition, commanded in the

They having near head Sandy.

started crossed

in the fall of 1767,

per

haps accompanied leghanies,

by Squire Boone, and the Blue Ridge and Al and Clinch the they fell upon has that

and the Holston of the West

their sources, waters Beautifully declared,

Fork of Big the historian the streams

Bancroft

vision, rise; kill and eat. And here it was, that Boone saw the first buffaloes he ever beheld, and enjoyed many a de licious feast from the favorite rump of

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206 that animal, ding, quite

Register

of the

Kentucky

State

Historical

Society

or a tender loin of venison. and much over-run

As the country thus far had been forbid hilly, with laurel, doned they became discouraged; they aban

“Boone and Hill had become very much attached to each other, and were * * * * often employed on
and notes S. (Manuscript) Statement, *”M. who with Col. Nathan of conversations Boone, of winter in the Salt Works visiting Youngs in his father with on a hunt 1796-97, while his from facts these received that region, own lips: fathers Salt called “At the Salt Youngs Spring in settled early Young, by James Works, made times, some sixty years ago the pioneers since then a well has been sunk at the salt; It is same spot, where some salt is yet made. Salt Creek now known as the Middle Works, in a wild mountainous and is situated country, in its immediate the settlements neighbor let M. S. (Manuscript) hood being sparse. of Prestons ters of Edwin Esq., Trimble, of Paintsville, and John Howes, Esq., burg, 1853.” Ky., March,

and as winter passed

away,

all hope of finding Kentucky by this route, and made the best of their way back to the Yadkin. know, until several the name of the stream Nor did Boone afterwards, near which he years

had wintered.*

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