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ROADS: Names and Data (continued)—
- Wayne's: cut northward, 8, 193; Indian object to, 193–194; route of, 194–199; in Cincinnati, 195; in Hamilton, 195; in Preble County, 196; near Eaton, 196; near Ithaca, Ohio, 196; John Woodington settled beside, 196; pioneers traced, 196–197.
- Wheeling to Bellville (1796), 12, 72–73.
- Wilderness: view of, near Cumberland Gap, 6, frontispiece; origin of name, 13–14; James Lane Allen's tribute to, 18; Fort Chissel starting point of, 29; Boone marks out, 43; early settlements on, 44; Indian trail followed by, 58, 62, 65; Ohio River route compared to, 81–82; white men first traverse, 82; Boone's early acquaintance with route of, 83; Boone engaged to open, 93; route of, 93, 94; Felix Walker's description of, 94–100; experiences of first travelers on, 94–100; Daniel Boone, kindness of, 100; Henderson meets pioneers returning from Kentucky on, 105; experiences of William Calk's party on, 107–117; Filson's itinerary on, 118–122; Brown's itinerary on, 123–130; traversable by wagons to Martin's Station in 1775, 133; Capt. Joseph Martin's Indian Agency on, 138–139; early dangers of travel-
