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130JIM CARSON rough Cumberland Gap oil38 x 64 inches$20,000–25,000Cumberland Gap is a pass through the Cumberland Mountains, a long ridge within the Appalachian Mountains near the junction of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. In 1775, Daniel Boone, who knew the gap in both directions, was hired by a Carolina trading company to clear and mark the pathway. is “Wilderness Road” blazed by Boone was 300 miles long, extending from feeder paths in eastern Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, through the gap and into the heartof Kentucky. e pathway, over time, became wider from use and could accommodate wagons, and by 1800, more that 200,000 pioneers had used the road to get through the Appalachians to Kentucky and the Ohio Valley.Jim Carson, May, 2014
