The text of the three historical documents printed on the
following pages is a copy of that which appears in the appendix
of "The Marches of the Dragoons" by Louis Pelzer, published by
the Iowa State Historical Society. The originals of these
documents are in the archives of the War Department at
Washington, D. C., where photostatic copies are obtainable.
Along with these original documents are drawings of things that
attracted Captain Boone’s attention along the line of march and
his own map showing the route of march taken by the Dragoons
under his command during the summer of 1843. It will not be
inappropriate to include a short biographical sketch of Captain
Boone at this place. Nathan Boone was the youngest child of
Daniel Boone, that hardy old pioneer of the Kentucky frontier.
When in 1796 Daniel Boone, chafing under the restraints imposed
upon him by a fast growing tide of western emigration bringing
in settlers to Kentucky, moved his family westward into the
present borders of Missouri, Nathan accompa