The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones (14594763200)

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Title: The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1863-1950
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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a foot-note on the second page. In asubsequent letter, received from Dr. Thwaites in January, 1907, thatgentleman writes as follows: Dr. Drapers authorities for his statements concerning John Findlay(so spelled in autograph, says Draper) were the early gazettes, especiallythe Maryland Gazette (1753), Filsons Kentucky (1784), and personalinterviews with Boones relatives—notably one with Daniel Bryan,some time before 1851. Draper concludes from the evidence you cite—Trents letter, April 10, 1753, and a similar remark in the MarylandGazette, May 17, 1753, that the visit of Findlay to Kentucky was inthe autumn of 1752, and the attack made at the same time as that uponMcGinty—although Filsons date is 1767. The details, as Draper hasgiven them, are taken from Bryans account, who remembered, or had atradition of, Findlays visit to Boone on the Yadkin in 1769. The evi-dence is scarcely conclusive, and had a less careful student given it, 212 > • d / / - / * LX. 4 - ; / 4 • it- l
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