Emmet A. Conway, Sr. Mapping of Principal Indian Paths of Ohio (1976)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Application
Emmett A. Conway Papers, The Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections

Emmet A. Conway (1914-2009) spent a lifetime researching and teaching the rich natural and cultural history of Southeastern Ohio. He was known as The Pathfinder by his preservation friends because of his wide-ranging knowledge of ancient indigenous trails, which date back thousands of years. For his study of indigenous paths in Ohio, Conway built on his training and experience as a forester and his extensive knowledge of Ohio’s natural history. For this fellowship project, he proposed to utilize federal land surveyor’s field notebooks to study Ohio’s pre-settlement history. Conway shared much of his research on his website The Olde Forester.