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The Crossing

Boone’s Lick Road

TheCrossing

A doublet, after Lewis Carroll. Change one letter at a time. Every step must be a real word. Get from this bank to the far bank.

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The other crossings

52 crossings, in the order the road was built. One a week; a new one every Monday. Your progress stays in this browser.

Lewis Carroll devised the word ladder on Christmas Day 1877 and published it as “Doublets” in Vanity Fair from March 1879. The form is in the public domain. Historical notes are drawn from published accounts of the Boone’s Lick Road, its towns, and the salt works.