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96 hawk valley and the land of the Iroquois; they jostled each other in Cumberland Gap; millions poured through the Alleghanies by Great Meadows and Braddock's Bloody Ford, to get to the Ohio river. These three became the great routes of the pioneer period, as they have more recently become the course of three great trunk railway lines.

A great work for the local historian may be found here. Each foot of the earliest Indian thoroughfares should be traced and mapped, together with the springs, licks, fords, ferries, and Indian village sites which may be found beside them. There is no newer, fresher, more important field for outdoor study.