Van Curler, Arent, 17, 19, 57, 61 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 58 _Ventura_, the, 109 Vincennes, Ind., 158 Virginia, 129, 154; valley of, 132 Wabash Railway Company, 102 Wabash river, 158 Walker, Dr. Thomas, 142 Ward, Nancy, 139 Washington, D.C., 91, 93, 94 Washington, George, 41, 60, 86, 112, 133; part taken by, in road making, 88–92, 98 Washington, Lawrence, 89 Watauga Settlement, 135–141, 144, 146, 159 Waterford, 47 West, the, 40, 60 Westfield valley, 6 West Shore Railway, 59 Wheeling, 94, 107, 122 White, Hugh, 21 Whitesboro, 21 Wilderness Road, 127, 149 Willett, Captain Marinus, 35 William and Mary College, 142 Wills creek, 89, 102 Wills mountain, 93 Winchester, Va., 132, 135 Windmills, Dutch, 15 Wood creek, 22, 42 Yadkin valley, North Carolina, 146 Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations. Portions of the captions of some illustrations were taken from the List of Illustrations. The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Page 18: The pronunciation mark above the first “o” in “ĭr-ṓ-kwoi´” was an inverted “T”, which was only visually approximated here.