188.1064.2-4

Two unidentified World War I soldiers and an unidentified woman stand in front of a sign marking the Daniel Boone Trail. This sign is pointing toward Boone, Iowa. The trail was dedicated to Daniel Boone and his son, Col. Nathan Boone who actually cut a route along this trail west of St. Louis, when it was still a part of the Louisiana territory, under Spain. The Iowa route was for the most part over or near the trail made famous by Col. Nathan Boone, then a captain, who, with his company of U.S. troops, was sent on an Indian mission to the present site of Winona, Minnesota. The northern section of the Daniel Boone Trail was organized on December 21, 1915, at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and the southern section, on February 2, 1916, at Moberly, Missouri. The trail was to extend north to the Canadian border near Grand Marais and south to the Gulf of Mexico. In Iowa from the south to the north, it passed through Bloomfield, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Pella, Prairie City, Madrid, Boone, Fort Dodge, Humboldt, Algona, and Bancroft. (See also: 188.1065.1-2)