The officers of the fort took on names of frontiersmen and had specific insignia: The uniform of the boys was based on the fringed buckskin outfit of the frontiersman.

Beard first promoted the program in his column in Recreation Magazine starting in March 1905.

When he left that magazine in 1909 and moved to Pictorial Review, he was forced to rename the program Boy Pioneers of America because WHC felt they owned the name.

A handbook for the program wasn't published until 1909, as Boy Pioneers: Sons of Daniel Boone.

In 2006 Great Rivers Council in Missouri established a summer camp honor society at Hohn Scout Reservation and Camp Thunderbird named Sons of Daniel Boone, following some of the original writings of Daniel Carter Beard.