the State Historical Society of Missouri
R. Douglas Hurt is a professor of history at Purdue University and a former associate director of the State Historical Society of Missouri.
![Daniel Boone. Boone sat for artist Chester Harding shortly before his death in 1820. It is the only known portrait of Boone painted from life. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.2015.102]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-12/1.%20Daniel%20Boone.jpg?itok=x1fRXTz6 "Daniel Boone. Boone sat for artist Chester Harding shortly before his death in 1820. It is the only known portrait of Boone painted from life. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.2015.102]")
Daniel Boone is most commonly known as a hunter, trapper, and frontier settler, but he also…
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![This lunette in the Missouri State Capitol, painted by Victor Higgins, depicts the sons of Daniel Boone manufacturing salt at Boone’s Lick in central Missouri. [Missouri State Archives, Ken Raveill Collection, MS386, 004-030]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-01/1.%20Daniel%20Morgan%20Boone.jpg?itok=JKHYCRxl "This lunette in the Missouri State Capitol, painted by Victor Higgins, depicts the sons of Daniel Boone manufacturing salt at Boone’s Lick in central Missouri. [Missouri State Archives, Ken Raveill Collection, MS386, 004-030]")
Daniel Morgan Boone was born on December 23, 1769, the seventh child of …
![Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2023-01/1.%20Nathan%20Boone.jpg?itok=r9eZlG8v "Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]")
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s…
![William Henry Hatch. [University Archives, University of Missouri, collection C:3/25/28]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/William-Henry-Hatch_0.jpg?itok=ZHqTFZio "William Henry Hatch. [University Archives, University of Missouri, collection C:3/25/28]")
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, on September 11, 1833, to Quaker parents the Reverend…
![William Hirth. [Boone County Historical Society, Henry Holborn Studio Photography Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-04/1.%20William%20Hirth.jpg?itok=JOw-snys "William Hirth. [Boone County Historical Society, Henry Holborn Studio Photography Collection]")
Born in Tarrytown, New York, on May 28, 1875, William Hirth moved to Missouri with his…