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Background Information
Daniel Boone explored the regions west of the Appalachians in the what is now Kentucky but was part then part of Virginia in the period around the American Revolution. The Cumberland Gap was pioneered by Daniel Boone and provided passage from the original colonies to America's next frontier west of the Appalachians. Kentucky was a state created soon after independence in the frontier across the Appalachians, bounded on the north by the Ohio River.