What route did most settlers take to get to the west of he Appalachian mountains?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The settlers used wagons full of food and other supplies for their journey. They put so much food and supplies in the wagons that there was barely any room for people to ride in them! However, it was hard to cross the Appalachian Mountains. Since early roads were rocky dirt paths, it was extremely hard to get across the mountains. There weren't any bridges across rivers, either. Therefore, the wagons would often break apart and had to be repaired.

Answer 3

The Native American Indians frequently crossed the mountains during hunting. They went along mountain ridges during hunts. After hundreds of years, their footpaths were quite obvious. When settlers began to move, there were no roads over the mountains. Settlers followed these footpaths. So travel often meant the whole family, including children, walked, single file. They put belongings--and even infants--as baggage on a pack horse. (One of my ancestors came as a 5-month old infant who was tied as a saddle bag on a horse as counterweight to the other saddle bag of household items.) The man would walk leading the horse, and the family would follow. They did not come by wagon--no paths were wide enough for a buck wagon. County histories from PA to IL, from VA to KY, etc. contain biographical stories of the numbers of young children who walked the miles over the mountains to their new homes on the west side of the mountains, stopping for many years to two decades in settlements, before moving again westward into Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois as young teens or young adults.

Answer 4

went up road through Cumberland Boone was 1 to cross mountains in state

Answer 5

one of the mountains was the rocky mountains.

Answer 6

the settlers traveled on the sides of the mountains