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Pioneer hero, Daniel Boone, also known as "The Trailblazer" was the first pioneer to trek across the Appalachian mountains. Known as the "Wilderness Road", Boone's path started in Virginia, went southward to Tennessee, then north to Kentucky for a total of two hundred miles.

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