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Rh great road westward by way of "Warrior's Path" through Cumberland Gap, distinctly states in his autobiography that as he left the Gap in the distance he came to a point where the Warrior's Path and the buffalo road diverged. The former ran westward through what is now Danville and Louisville, while the latter went northward. Boone followed the buffalo road to the mouth of Otter creek where Boonesborough was founded. Colonel Logan afterward opened a road westward toward Danville and Louisville on the general course of the Indian trail.

Thus it is plain that in the earliest days there was a marked distinction between the roads of the buffalo and the Indian, though each undoubtedly used, at times, the other's track, and in some places, such as Cumberland Gap, the buffalo and Indian tracks were identical. Dr. Walker in the quotation given above, "We went up Naked Creek to the head and had a plain Buffaloe Road most of the way," was speaking probably of the "Warrior's Path" leading directly to Cumberland Gap though not