Month: March 2020

Daddy’s second task required him to hire and lead men to hack and mark a trail into Caintuck. This newly marked trail over the mountains of western Virginia, through the Cumberland Gap, would break through canebrakes, across meadows, and ford streams and rivers to allow settlers, hunters, and traders alike easier movement into that promised…

“Let me tell you, the land is full and fruitful. It’s also a howlin’ wilderness full of savages and beast of all kinds,” John explained, waving his arms here and there. “I’ve seen buffalo herds at salt licks that could not be counted, for the good Lord didn’t create numbers to count that high. There…