Inc. Photo reprints may be available. Contact us for more information. The following article continues our search for the local history and folklore surrounding the earliest writings concerning the Wilderness Trail. The following article takes a look at how Daniel Boone came to hunt and explore the region we now call home.
Curiosity is a natural thing.
It has the ability to infect a man's soul giving him a since of longing that will lead him to discover. And so it was with American legend, Daniel Boone. When Boone decided to leave his homeland of North Carolina, the hills and valleys stretched out endlessly leading him to journey further into the wilderness and staying gone from his families for weeks at a time. As Boone and his companions met up and began their fatiguing journey through the wilderness, their travels took them through the mountainous wilderness journeying steadily westward into present day, East Tennessee and then into Virginia along the Holston River. Boone explained that the region, we now call home, deserves a place in history.