Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail over the Appalachian Mountains to Kentucky is glorified in George Caleb Bingham’s 1851-52 allegorical masterpiece Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap. Eventually, more than 300,000 Western settlers (including Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather) followed the trail West seeking new lands and opportunity in Kentucky and beyond.– All images True West Archives unless otherwise note
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