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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • series of explorations which resulted in a flood of immigration along the Wilderness Road across upper East Tennessee and through Cumberland Gap for the colonization of Kentucky. Following the way blazed by Boone, the pioneers form Carolina to the western settlements, along the Watauga, Holston and Nolichucky Rivers, came mainly by two routes; one, Bright’s Trace, climbing Yellow Mountain and crossing the divide just east of Roan Mountain, the other passing t through Iron Mountain Gap between the Roan and Unaka Mountains. Bright’s Trace was the path followed by the mountain men in 1780, when after their rendezvous at Sycamore Shoals, they followed Sevier, Shelby and Campbell on the march to King’s Mountain. The region was well known to the elder Michaux, who botanized here on several occasions. His journal thus describes his ascent of Grandfather Mountain in 1794: “Climbed to the summit of the highest mountain in all North America, and with my companion and gui
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