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This region was also known as Corne de Cerf, Elkhorn Prairie, Elkhorn Point and Ayres Point.^[1] Prairie, forest, and bottom land were not far apart here. The "Meadow-in-the-Hole" was a singular little meadow, fifty or sixty yards wide, located on a "dry branch" of the Elkhorn and thirty feet lower than the surrounding forests—at what is now Oakdale on the Elkhorn.^[2] From the present Oakdale the pathway ran from Elkhorn Prairie through Nashville Prairie, circling half a mile to the north and northeast of Nashville, Washington County. Turning to the east here, it coursed onward to a celebrated "point" of woods called Grand Point, near the present Grand Point Creek, section 32, township 2, south range 1W, two miles and a half northwest of Richview, Washington County.^[3] From thence it circled northeast through section 9 in Grand Prairie Township, the extreme northwest township of Jefferson County.^[4] The second night's camp may

1. Draper MSS., xxv J, fols. 37, 57, 58, 77.
2. Id., fol. 78.
3. Id., fol. 77.
4. Id.