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dian attacks, and fought in Lord Dunmore's 

 War, an Indian conflict occurring just before 

 the outbreak of the Revolution. 



In 1767 he had made his first expedition to 

 the wilds of Kentucky. Eight years later he 

 led a party of settlers to that region and built 

 a fort on the Kentucky River, calling it Boones- 

 boro. Thither he brought his family, his wife 

 and daughters being the first white women to 

 stand on the banks of the Kentucky. Early 

 in 1778 Boone and thirty companions left the 

 settlement to procure a supply of salt, and all 

 were captured by a band of Shawnee Indians. 

 Boone was carried to Detroit by his captors 

 and finally adopted by a Shawnee chief. Pre- 

 tending to be. highly pleased with Indian life, 

 he was given considerable liberty, and so was 

 able to escape when he learned of an intended 

 raid on Boonesboro. 



He made the perilous journey of 160 miles 

 back home in four days, reached there in time 

 to give warning to the settlers, and bore a 

 conspicuous part in repelling the attack. Boone 

 then removed with his family to North Caro- 

 lina, but returned to Kentucky in 1780. His 

 services as guide and surveyor were in great 

 demand, and he represented the settlers in the 

 legislature and acted as sheriff and county 

 lieutenant of Fayette County. His carelessness 

 in securing clear titles for his land holdings 

 caused him to lose all that he possessed, and 

 in about 1790 he took his family to Point 

 Pleasant, Va. (now W. Va.). 



Five years later they settled in Spanish 

 territory about forty-five miles west of Saint 

 Louis, where Boone was appointed commander 

 of the Femme Osage district. The Spanish 

 authorities made him a land grant of about 

 845 acres, but when the territory passed to the 

 United States through the Louisiana Purchase 

 he lost it all. In 1810, however, Congress con- 

 firmed the grant in recognition of the services 

 of the man who had "opened the way for mil- 

 lions of his fellow men." 



He died September 21, 1820, and was buried 

 in Missouri, but in 1845 his remains, with those 

 of his wife, were transferred to Frankfort, Ky., 

 where a splendid monument has been erected 

 to honor his memory. In 1915 the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution of North Carolina, 

 Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia completed a 

 marking of the Boone trail through the four 

 states mentioned. The first marker is placed 

 at Boone's home on the Yadkin in North Caro- 

 lina, and the trail passes over several hundred 

 miles of most picturesque scenery, ending at 



Boonesboro. The work of marking the trail, a 

 task of four years, is representative of the place 

 that Daniel Boone occupies in the hearts of 

 his countrymen that of the typical American 

 pioneer. See illustration of Boone monument, 

 in article KENTUCKY. 



An excellent biography of Boone has been 

 written by R. G. Thwaltes. For young people, 

 an interesting life has been prepared by Lucile 

 Gulliver (in the "True Stories of Great Ameri- 

 cans" series). E.C.B. 



BOONE, IOWA, an important coal center, 

 with a mixed population of Americans, Swedes, 

 Germans, Irish and Scotch, the number of 

 whom increased from 10,347 in 1910 to 12,253 

 in 1915. Boone is the county seat of Boone 

 County, and is situated in the central part of 

 the state, near the Des Moines River. Des 

 Moines is fifty miles southeast and Fort Dodge 

 is fifty miles northwest. The city is served by 

 the Chicago & North Western, constructed to 

 this point in 1865; the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 Saint Paul, built to the city in 1875, and the 

 Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern (inter- 

 urban) ; the last-named was constructed in 

 1906 and has its headquarters at Boone. The 

 city was founded in 1848, was incorporated as a 

 city in 1865, and named for Daniel Boone, the 

 American pioneer. Boonesboro was annexed 

 in 1887. The area is a little less than five 

 square miles. 



The industries of Boone are largely de- 

 pendent on the natural resources of the vicinity, 

 where extensive deposits of coal and potter's 

 clay are found. This section is also rich in 

 agricultural products. Live-stock raising and 

 pork and beef packing industries are important ; 

 the principal manufactures are bricks, tiles, 

 machines, flour, tobacco products, hosiery and 

 hardware specialties. - The car shops of the 

 Chicago & North Western Railway are located 

 here. The buildings of note are the post office, 

 constructed in 1903 at a cost of $50,000; a 

 $200,000 courthouse, erected in 1916; the high 

 school building, erected in 1914 at a cost of 

 $180,000; an armory, a Masonic Temple and 

 the Eleanor Moore Hospital. In addition to 

 the public school system, the city has a theo- 

 logical seminary and a library donated by 

 former Senator C. J. A. Ericson. 



BOOTES, booh' teez, "THE HUNTSMAN," is 

 a constellation in the northern hemisphere, 

 close to the Great Bear, or Dipper. It contains 

 Arcturus, one of the brightest stars visible in 

 the northern heavens, its light being exceeded 

 only by that of Sirius, Vega and perhaps Ca- 



