Nice picture there rhoodphoto, I don't recognize the arch from that angle. 99% of the arches in KY are named. Is this one in the RRGorge or D. Boone Forest? Or private land? Seems the only arches left to be 'found' or 'named' are the windows/light houses/key holes that are generally less than 3ft high. The general area you and Ki have discussed in this thread I would assume is up Indian Creek? That area still produces arrow heads in the creeks along the main stream. Seems it was a major Indian trace into and out of the Gorge area. The original 'Sheltoewee Trace' named after Daniel Boone more than likely followed Indian Creek Northward out of the RRGorge and toward the Cave Run area and not Gladie Creek where it current has been put. As I recall, there is a thread here somewhere discussing mining tools found in the Cave Run area many many years ago. Gladie creek, Cloud Splitter and the Indian Stairway area were definitely populated by the Natives but I don't think it was the pathway through the Gorge from the the North. Wolfpen Branch would be another candidate in that area for a possible trace.
As for the Turkey tracks, I have always heard that those were made by the Cherokee to point the way towards good hunting areas. Seems I read somewhere that most of those are found in Western North Carolina/East Tenn/Western Virginia/extreme SE KY (Old Cherokee country). I would be careful assuming that they have anything to do with Swift or older Spanish Silver Mines. Would be cool to make a map of the region and place the turkey tracks and their direction on it and see if there is any sense made of them...or if they do make or follow an old trace.
