The colts were broken, as it was called, to the halter; that is, they could be led, with light burdens upon their backs, but could not be ridden.
Mrs.Crockett mounted the old horse, with her babe in her arms, and the little boy, two years old, sitting in front of her, astride the horse's neck, and occasionally carried on his father's shoulders.

Their few articles of household goods were fastened upon the backs of the two colts.

David led one, and his kind-hearted father-in-law, who had very generously offered to help him move, led the other.

Thus this party set out for a journey of two hundred and fifty miles, over unbridged rivers, across rugged mountains, and through dense forests, whose Indian trails had seldom if ever been trodden by the feet of white men.
This was about the year 1806.

The whole population of the State then amounted to but about one hundred thousand.