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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • Along its streams, the Holston and New Rivers, the pioneers from Pennsylvania made their way6 to settle Kentucky and Tennessee. It was a barrier to immigration from the east; it determined the route of the resistless immigrant and the destiny of the Trans-Alleghany states. As early as 1671, Batts and Fallam7, on one of the Colonel Arthur Woods’ expeditions, reached New River from Appomattox, Virginia. century later Daniel Boone, on his journeys to Cumberland Gap, the gateway to the Kentucky wilderness, crossed those ranges by at least six different routes. Gradually the frontier receded under the unceasing pressure of the immigrants but this region was to be the scene of the most desperate and destructive of all the Indian warfare. The southwestern trend of settlement was in violation of the Indian treaties and resisted by the British authorities, as far as they were able to exercise any prohibition, but by 1770 a considerable settlement had developed on the Wa
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