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The RoadBoone’s Lick · St. Charles to Arrow Rock
One hundred and fifty miles of overland road on the north side of the Missouri, cut to reach a salt lick. You walk it station by station and you decide how. Where the record is thin we say so.
East — St. CharlesThe roadArrow Rock — West
- Days on the road
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- Miles behind you
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- Carrying
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- Trace
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Title block
- Sheet
- Boone’s Lick Road
- Extent
- St. Charles → Arrow Rock
- Bearing
- West, north bank
- Stations
- 11
- Scale
- Schematic
- Compiled
- The Rocheport Times
Notes on this sheet
The map is a locator, not survey data. Town coordinates are good to about a kilometre; the river, the high ground and the creek crossings are drawn schematically.
Days and miles are the game’s arithmetic — distance between points, stretched for a road that wandered, divided by a travelling rate we chose. They are not from the record. The dates, the names and the numbers inside the dispatches are.
Sources: Boone’s Lick Road and William Becknell (Wikipedia) · Missouri Encyclopedia · National Park Service · Missouri State Parks · Legends of America · Santa Fe Trail Research