An Atlas Of Appalachian Trails To The Ohio River

An Atlas of Appalachian Trails to the Ohio River; by Carrie Eldridge; Published: 1998; 17x11; VIII+42 pp; Soft Cover; Item # CE01 Standing between many of the early American colonies and the majority of the continent were the Appalachians. The entire mountainous region was thick with tree and undergrowth, hillsides and rivers, breached only by the game trails of buffalo and game. These buffalo trails were used by both the Indians and early settlers alike. Settlers like trappers, hunters, traders and cattlemen crisscrossed the isolated region along these often difficult trails. Overtime, these trails were widened time and again, to accommodate humans, horses, and eventually wagons as settlers sought to expand ever westward. The volume by Carrie Eldridge, shows the location of little known trails as well as the major routes which passed through Virginia during those early expansion years. Along these routes grew towns and communities. Only four major routes crossed the Appalachians from