In the true border temper he determined to abandon the home he had made, and to seek out a new one hundreds of miles farther in the heart of the hunting-grounds of the red warriors.
The point pitched upon was the beautiful country lying along the great bend of the Cumberland.

Many adventurous settlers were anxious to accompany Robertson, and, like him, to take their wives and children with them into the new land.

It was agreed that a small party of explorers should go first in the early spring, to plant corn, that the families might have it to eat when they followed in the fall.
The Cumberland Country.
The spot was already well known to hunters.

Who had first visited it cannot be said; though tradition has kept the names of several among the many who at times halted there while on their wanderings.

[Footnote: One Stone or Stoner, perhaps Boon's old associate, is the first whose name is given in the books.