How Kentucky Pioneers Crossed the Western Frontier

The safest means of crossing the western frontier was with groups. Many families who settled in Kentucky traversed the mountains with their families. Yet, the pioneers did not always travel in groups. There were families who set off alone. The heritage of some of these families was interesting. For example, neither Scots nor Germans can claim Daniel Boone; he was in blood a blend of English and Welsh; in character wholly English. His grandfather George Boone was born in 1666 in the hamlet of Stoak, near Exeter in Devonshire. George Boone was a weaver by trade and a…