Volume 13 , Issue 24

Captain Nathan Boone's Journal

Wes Devine thought this may be of interest to some concerning Captain Nathan Boone's Journal. Wes found the following link over at Chronicles of Oklahoma. This Web site tells of some of Nathanial Boone's exploration of Oklahoma and Kansas in 1941. He later completed another trip in 1943. He traveled through Northwest Oklahoma and camped along the Canadian River.

Nathan Boone was the youngest child of DAniel Boone. It was in 1796 that Daniel Boone moved his family westward into the present borders of Missouri. NAthan was commissioned a captain of a company of Missouri volunteers by President Madison during the War of 1812.

Nathan Boone was elected delegate tot he state constitutional convention when Missouri was admitted to statehood in the union in 1820. Nathan soon afterwards returned to active military life as a captain in the 1st Regiment of the United States Dragoons.

Nathan Boone spent much of his time afterwards on the border of Missouri and in the Indian country during that time. Nathan's journal describes his first contact with present day Oklahoma, when Fort Wayne was established in 1838, on Spavinaw Creek in Eastern Oklahoma. Nathan was the first commander and he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-colonel after spending 20 years in the service of the Dragoons. Nathan Boone died in 1857 at his Missouri farm where he had the first stone house ever built in that state. Click the link above to read more of Nathan Boone's Journal.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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