William Calk's Journal

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This file appears in: Chief Red Bird
William Calk's Journal

The Native Americans that William Calk references in his 1775 account of traveling from Virginia to Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap were likely Cherokees. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Chief Red Bird

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker # 908 in Clay County remembers Chief Red Bird, a Cherokee leader and the namesake of the Red Bird River, a tributary of the Kentucky River. The late eighteenth century was a period of conflict between the increasing numbers of…