35/62 The pioneer work of the hunter was over, and that of the axe-bearing settler was about to begin. This is true as a whole; but along the Mississippi, in the extreme west of the present Kentucky and Tennessee, the Chickasaws held possession. There was a Shawnee town south of the Ohio, and Cherokee villages in southeastern Tennessee. The backwoodsmen generally used "trace," where western frontiersmen would now say "trail." 3. Dr.Thomas Walker, of Virginia. |