Tag: boonslick
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in “Boonslick”
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If you’ve ever wondered where the Boonslick region gets its name, the answer is a couple hours’ drive from Rocheport, on Missouri Highway 187 near Boonesboro — a spring the Osage people used for centuries…
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in “Boonslick”
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If you’ve ever wondered why this whole stretch of the Missouri River — Rocheport included — gets called the Boonslick, or Boonslick Country, the answer isn’t some marketing invention. It’s a literal salt spring, about…
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in ‘Boonslick’
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If you have ever wondered why the stretch of Missouri rolling west from Boone County into Howard, Cooper, and Saline counties carries the name Boonslick, the answer is older than Missouri statehood — and it…
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When 500 Steamboats a Year Tied Up at Rocheport’s Wharf
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Stand on the Rocheport riverfront today and the Missouri rolls quietly past — a trail town of 208 residents, bed-and-breakfasts, and cyclists stopping for coffee. A century and a half ago, this same bend in…
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Old Franklin: The River Town the Missouri Swallowed
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Just across the water from Rocheport, where the Missouri bends north toward Boonville, there is nothing but a grassy bank and a wayside marker beside the highway. That is all that remains of a town…
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George Caleb Bingham: The Boonslick’s Own Painter of River Life
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When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired a canvas called Fur Traders Descending the Missouri in 1933, curators were rediscovering a painter the art world had largely set aside since his death…