The treaty's contents included western Virginia's Fincastle County, in what is now most of Kentucky.

BCE (Before Common Era) the

The great buffalo trace crossing was one of the few low spots along the otherwise steeply banked Kentucky River, making its location advantageous.

George Garvin Brown, for instance, who would go on to create Brown-Forman, shook the whiskey industry of Kentucky to its core when he presented his Old Forester Bourbon in 1870, selling it only in bottles rather than by the barrel as a method to ensure consistent quality and authenticity. Talk about visionary.

American bison as buffalo

the crossing he describes might be at the very location, later to be called Leestown, that lay about one mile from present-day Frankfort and was a critical part of the famed ancient buffalo trail, referred to by the native tribes as “great buffalo trace.”

the official spelling of Kentucky with a “y” came later, around the time the territory gained statehood in 1792. Early variations on the term include Kentucke, Kaintuckee, and Cantuckey.

the McAfees and Taylor met up with Thomas Bullitt, who led a large contingent of 40 men for the Ohio Land Company.4 Bullitt's mission was likewise to sail down the Ohio River looking for suitable places on which to build outposts

Many of the buffalo trails, or traces, were in some locations hundreds of feet wide and up to four feet deep.