In Robertson's company was a man named John Rains, who brought with him twenty-one horned cattle and seventeen horses; the only cattle and horses which any of the immigrants succeeded in bringing to the Cumberland.

But he was not the only man who had made the attempt.

One of the immigrants who went in Donelson's flotilla, Daniel Dunham by name, offered his brother John, who went by land, L100 to drive along his horses and cattle.

John accepted, and tried his best to fulfil his share of the bargain; but he was seemingly neither a very expert woodsman nor yet a good stock hand.

There is no form of labor more arduous and dispiriting than driving unruly and unbroken stock along a faint forest or mountain trail, especially in bad weather; and this the would-be drover speedily found out.