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Buffalo Trace

The bison road from the Falls of the Ohio to Vincennes on the Wabash, used by Native travellers and later settlers.

Also written: Buffalo Trail

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The maps that show it

Where two or more maps draw the trail within each other’s uncertainty, the line is their average weighted by each map’s accuracy; where only one map shows it, its line is dashed and its corridor is that map’s accuracy. A compiled corridor drawn from a map counts as that map, not as a second witness. How it’s done, and where it may be wrong: how this map was made.

Whose lands it crosses

Lands this trail crosses were ceded to the United States by treaty or law; the present-day nations associated with those cessions are:

…and 23 more: all nations.

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From Project Homeland v0.5.2, a draft built from colonial-era and later maps: the names and lines are those mapmakers’, until nations’ own knowledge corrects them. Corrections: [email protected].

In the network143 km in 14 stretches
Seen on more than one map143 km (100%), 96 km of it on three or more
Documented for1600–1850
RegionMid-Atlantic and Ohio Valley