Daniel Morgan Boone

In a memoir of him written by the late Dr. Johnson Lykins, of this city, it is stated that he spent twelve winters trapping beavers on the Blue, spending his summers in St. Louis.

[3] Later he pioneered another road, with a slightly different alignment from Boone settlement that went further west to Fort Osage.

The pine planks were a valuable commodity if they could be transported from the Ozarks to the waiting markets along the Mississippi River.

[6] By 1826, Boone had settled on the western side of Missouri in the Westport (Kansas City) area.

In 1831, Boone patented land in Jackson County, Missouri, where he and his large family owned property and farmed.

[9] Both properties were generally along the Westport Santa Fe Trail route (today's Wornall Road) - one of the major thoroughfares through the area at that time.

The Boone-Hays Graveyard, near present-day 63rd and Prospect in Kansas City, Missouri, was long neglected.