Boone: A Biography (88 page)

Boone cabin on Brushy Creek. Photo. Ca. 1935. When Boone and his wife, Rebecca, and youngest son, Nathan, returned to Kentucky from Virginia around 1795, he was so poor he settled in a cabin owned by his son Daniel Morgan Boone on the Brushy Fork of Hinkston Creek. (Courtesy Special Collections, University of Kentucky, Lexington.)

Nathan Boone. Anonymous painting of Boone’s youngest son. Ca. 1850. Nathan Boone and his young bride, Olive Van Bibber Boone, followed the Boone migration to Missouri in 1799. Draper’s interview with Nathan and Olive Boone in 1851 has provided some of our best information about Boone. (Courtesy Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.)

Daniel Boone.
Chester Harding. Oil on canvas. 1819. A young painter from Boston, Chester Harding visited Missouri in the last year of Boone’s life and persuaded the old woodsman to pose for a portrait, the only known likeness done from life. (Courtesy Massachusetts Historical Society.)

Nathan Boone’s stone house, Femme Osage Creek, MO. Boone’s youngest son, with the help of Boone and others, built this substantial house around 1816 in the style of houses the Boones had seen in Pennsylvania. Daniel Boone died in the front room September 26, 1820. (Photo: Kevin Riebs.)