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This journey would take them another 276 miles through much of the unsure terrain, where the Ohio Indian wars had only ended five years earlier.

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On November 30, 1817, they reach Louisville, a town of 4,012 people (13 years before the opening of the Louisville and Portland Canal and the establishment of the Louisville Daily Journal).

Their journey would still require another 278.6 miles…

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