1. Nathan Boone was a veteran of the War of 1812, a delegate to the Missouri constitutional convention in 1820, and a captain in the 1st United States Regiment of Dragoons at the time of its founding, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Nathan Boone was born at Boone Station, near Athens, Fayette County, Kentucky in 1780 and moved to Spanish Missouri with the family in 1799.
In 1807, he and his brother Daniel Morgan Boone first worked the salt licks in what became known as the Booneslick Country.
Nathan Boone took part in the War of 1812 as captain of a company of United States Rangers which scouted in the country between the Mississippi and Illinois.
Nathan Boone doubled his sentries, ordered his men to sleep away from the fire, and placed them behind trees around the camp.
Nathan Boone crouched behind a tree and realized his rangers were outnumbered.
Nathan Boone shouted his men to fall back from tree to tree.
Nathan Boone took part in an expedition led by Henry Dodge to relieve settlers who had been raided by Miami Indians.
The Miamis had agreed to surrender as prisoners of war, and certain members of the militia became angered when they found contraband belonging to a settler who had been killed in the original raid, but Dodge and Nathan Boone stood in the line of fire and forced the nearly mutinous troops to back down.
Nathan Boone attained the rank of major in the militia in this war.
Nathan Boone built the first stone house north of the Missouri and his father died there.
Nathan Boone participated in the Black Hawk War in 1832.
Nathan Boone participated in the First Dragoon Expedition, notable for making the first contact between the United States federal government and the southern plains Indians.
In 1853, Nathan Boone resigned and retired to his home in Ash Grove, Greene County, Missouri, where he died in 1856.