In May of 2015, my friend Cecily and I were lucky enough to visit the home of Daniel Boone in Defiance, Missouri, near to St. Louis. This is the home where Daniel died in his bedroom on September 26, 1820. He was 85 years old. Of his long adventurous life, he only got to live for ten years in this lovely home.
We all think we know much about Daniel Boone, and likely we do, but I didn't know much about this wonderful still-standing house. The story begins in 1799 when Daniel, then age 65, arrived at the Missouri River and took out several Spanish Land Grants. Boone's land consisted of 850 acres (for him and members of his family).
Construction on this home began in 1803 and was not completed until 1810. The walls are 2 1/2 feet thick and made from rubble-fill construction and local Missouri blue limestone. Much of the original wood remains in the interior of the home. The middle photo shows the view that Daniel and his family would have seen from the front porch (on the opposite side from where Cecily is standing) except that today there are trees and in those days it would have been vegetable gardens.
The ancestry and lineage and descendants of Daniel Boone are extensively documented. One great website I found was www.BooneAssociation.com but there is also the www.BooneSociety.com.
I'm sure Daniel Boone and his family had dogs but they surely did not have dachshunds. This breed was not introduced into America until 1887.
"Ha!" sniffed Tika when I was explaining this to her.
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