Some Things to Think About

1. What can you tell of Robertson’s boyhood?
2. Imagine yourself as one of a group of travellers on the way to Kentucky or Tennessee, and tell all you can about the journey.
3. Tell all you can about the food, clothing, shelter, and other conditions of life in these backwoods settlements.
4. What sort of training did the pioneer boy receive in school and at home?
5. Why did Robertson plant a settlement at the place where Nashville now stands?
6. How did he save this settlement from the Indians? What do you admire about him?
7. Locate events and places on the map.

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