Show MAGAZINES IN THE DAYS T WHEN BOONE BLAZED THE WAY THROUGH KENTUCKY it was doubtless one of the results of tho general which a little later burst out so violently in the revolution that a sudden strong tide of immigration to the tar west began about the year 1775 the civilization of the new world which forone hundred and fifty years had clung so tenaciously to a narrow of land scarce more than a hundred miles wide lying along the atlantic coast suddenly moved westward leaping all barriers mountains rivers forests and sprang into vigorous growth in that wonderful western land of kalu buckee choso whoso tame bal been brought to the east by general washington governor Dun moros surveyors and other adventurous spirits who had journeyed thither no steadily advancing wave of sentiment marked this movement but full alvo hundred miles as the crow files from the sea coast aej more than three hundred allea beyond the crests of the mountains population suddenly gathered and civilization suddenly bloomed these three hundred allea beyond the crests of the mountains unbroken forest the terror and the peril of the pioneer trackless save for that narrow submerged channel connecting the east with the fa rand r and much desired west over it wound countless brave thousands of home seekers from the horth they came from new york and philadelphia making their way past Lancaster and yorktown to the and Winchester 1 down through the pleasant ley over tha divide leaving the river er that run toward sunrise for fort seel and new alver choso wa acra arunto the wl from rich corid mo rid they came settled region of central virginia meeting the at fort chiasmic Chia smi there aboy took leave of civilization and as d strong swimmer de longue haleene plunges beneath the water to come up upon the opposite chore so did they plunge into the wilderness to reappear a month later in the pleasant fertile land of kentucky from tho Wl road by carter goodloe in the may scribner |