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Captain Nathan Boone
In the summer of 1843,
Capt Nathan Boone, of the 1st Regiment U. S. Dragoons, commanded an
expedition which explored the valleys of the Arkansas and the Cimarron
and those of their principal tributaries, going as far north as the
great bend of the Arkansas. Among the places visited by Captain
Boone were the salt plains of the Cimarron and the Nescatunga (Salt
Fork). Captain Boone is said to have written a very interesting
report of the expedition, which, however, was not
published.
Nathan Boone was the
youngest son of Col. Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer. He was
born in Kentucky in 1780 and moved with his parents across the
Mississippi into Missouri, which was then a part of Spanish
possessions in 1796.
He was a captain of
volunteers during the Second War with Great Britain, and when Missouri
was admitted to the Union, served as a member of its constitutional
convention and also in the state legislature.
At the organization of the
1st Regiment of U. S. dragoons he was commissioned captain. He
was in command of the post of Fort Wayne in 1839 and 1840. He
remained with the Dragoons for twenty years, retiring as a lieutenant
colonel. He died in 1857.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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