Wilderness Road

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noun American History.

a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.

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How to use Wilderness Road in a sentence

The men began to make the famous Wilderness Road that was to lead to Kentucky.
Daniel Boone|Katharine E. Wilkie
It was called the "Wilderness Road," and over it thousands of emigrants went into Kentucky to settle.
The Beginner's American History|D. H. Montgomery
Along the way a pleasant reminder of an almost forgotten past is that of the Wilderness Road Weavers busy at loom and wheel.
Blue Ridge Country|Jean Thomas
This is still known as the Wilderness Road, along which so many thousand settlers afterward made their way.
American Leaders and Heroes|Wilbur Fisk Gordy

Logan and his forest rangers, like knights of old, guarded the Wilderness Road.
The Conquest|Eva Emery Dye