About the Author
Carrie Eldridge, a former educator, is a historical geographer with 20 years experience in local history information. A frequent lecturer, she has been included in "Who's Who in the Midwest" for her work in preserving historical information. With 30 titles of abstracted materials, 2 gazetteers and 6 maps to her credit, an atlas series about early migration routes seemed to be required to suppliment her information.
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The topography of America limited travel routes. Created by the great land animals and followed by first the Indians and later the white settlers, these routes lead the early frontiersmen west. Some of the earliest western settlers were found in western North Carolina. Why did these early settlers first move into the rich lands of Kentucky only to move on? What delayed settlement in western north Carolina that became Tennessee? Who moved on south towards Texas?
