"Their was only 7 of us and a negro boy went throug the wilderness together in March 1778. We all had good rifles and good Ammonition. On Holston we took provision for our Jurney. We understood a little provision would Do as we could kill plenty on the way. We entered the wilderness in high spirits. I was truly Delighted in seeing the mountains, Rivers, hills, etc., spruce, pine, Laurril, etc. Every thing looked new to me. Traveling along in Powls Valley where the Indians had broak up some people, see wast Desolate Cabbins I began to feel strange. We went on our Jurney and came in sight of the noted place called Cumberland Gap. We encamped all night (yet we was 3 or 4 Mile off) in a wast Cabin, and it was a Rainey blustry night. When Morning came the weather was clear, and after we ate our breackfast a little after sunrise we persued on our Jurney. When we got near to the Gap at a lorril branch where the indean war road comes in the Kentucky road (this indean Road Crosses the Gap at this place from the Cherekeys to the shoney town). And at this branch where the indian road comes in we saw fresh Indian tracks. James Trabue ordered us everyone to alight, prime our Guns afresh and pick our flints if they needed it, and put 2 bullits in each man's mouth. And if we could come up with the indians we must fight our best. The Indians' track was fresh and was Just gone the way we was going" (Trabue, 44).
Trabue, Daniel, and Chester R. Young. Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Print.
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