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Date: 9/18/2009 Album ID: 839984
Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers
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Frontiersman Daniel Boone moved from the crowds in Kentucky to St. Charles County, Missouri, where he lived for over 20 years before dying on Sept. 26, 1820. An explorer, legislator, militia officer, surveyor and Indian fighter, Boone’s story was a mixture of folklore and robust deeds.
A print of the oil painting of Daniel Boone by Chester Harding in 1820, the year of Boone's death. Boone sat for Harding at the home of his daughter, Jemima Callaway, near Marthasville. The Callaway log cabin is part of the Boonesfield Village in Defiance, run by Lindenwood University to commemorate and study the frontier era of the Boone family. Daniel Boone died on Sept. 26, 1820, in the home of his son, Nathan, which was preserved and adjoins Boonesfield Village. The Callaways were namesakes of Callaway County, Mo.
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G.H. Pring, horticulturalist for the Missouri Botanical Garden, stands next to Daniel Boone's Judgment Tree in March 1922. The elm tree was near Nathan Boone's home. Boone dispensed justice beneath the tree when he served as a local official the Spanish colonial and American territorial governments. The tree was more than 200 years old when it died in 1972.
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Chickens wander the side yard of Nathan Boone's home on June 13, 1924. The four-story limestone home was begun in 1803 and finished in 1810. (Post-Dispatch)
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Another view of the Judgment Tree, taken June 13, 1924, during one of the efforts by local citizens to preserve the home in which Daniel Boone died.
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The second-floor porch of the Nathan Boone home, facing the Femme Osage Creek in another 1924 photo. (Post-Dispatch)
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A close-up view of a spring near the Judgment Tree, also taken in 1924. (Post-Dispatch)
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A monument that the Daughters of the American Revolution placed in Boonesborough, Ky., to honor Daniel Boone, his wife, Rebecca, and other Kentucky pioneers, in a 1925 photo. (Post-Dispatch)
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The front of Nathan Boone's home in May 1957. (Post-Dispatch)
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The room in which Daniel Boone died. The bed shown in this 1957 photo was made of wood from an old cabin after Francis Marion Curlee, a lawyer in St. Louis and descendant of one of Boone's brothers, bought the home in 1925. (Post-Dispatch)
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Some of the damage from a fire that swept through the second floor of the Nathan Boone home on Feb. 12, 1960. The fire burned through part of the roof, and the first floor suffered water damage in the successful fight to save it. The home eventually was restored. (Post-Dispatch)
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Remains of the Judgment Tree as of March 1973, about one-half year after it died. The Nathan Boone home is in the background. (Lynn Spence/Post-Dispatch)
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Fourth graders from Fox School in Arnold walk the back staircase during a tour of the Nathan Boone home on April 28, 1988. (Karen Elshout Whiteley/Post-Dispatch)
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The late Rolla Andre, then curator of the Boone home, telling the Fox students about Daniel Boone. (Karen Elshout Whiteley/Post-Dispatch)
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The drawing room of the Nathan Boone, decorated on Dec. 6, 1990, for the annual Christmas candlelight tour. (Lynn Spence/Post-Dispatch)
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A closeup of the bronze face on the DAR monument in 2005, when the property was listed for sale. Last year, the bronze plaque was ripped from the stone, and part of it was sold for scrap. Matthew M. Burgoyne, 29, of Wright City, pleaded guilty of stealing and institutional vandalism on Aug. 7, 2008, and is on five years probation, according to the Warren County prosecutor's office. In July, the DAR installed a new plaque made of granite. PHOTO BY LAURIE SKRIVAN/PD STAFF
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A 1999 photograph of the monument that the Daughters of the American Revolution placed over the original graves of Daniel Boone and his wife, Rebecca, in 1913, the centennial of Mrs. Boone's death. In 1845, Kentucky officials traveled to St. Charles County and persuaded Boone's descendants to let them exhume the bodies and rebury them in Frankfort, Ky. But some Missourians believe they dug up the wrong grave for Daniel, and that his remains are still here, near Marthasville, Mo. (Scott Lawrence/Post-Dispatch)
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