On this day 250 years ago Daniel Boone led his family and five other families from their homes in North Carolina to travel on the Wilderness Road from Virginia into Kentucky. Their planned settlement in Kentucky was aborted two weeks later by an attack by a party of Indians in which his son and others were brutally killed, although Boone and his family did establish a settlement in Kentucky two years later. The westward expansion of White American settlements and Native American resistance to the settlements were factors that contributed to the American Revolution.