The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-08-02
COLONEL BOONE.
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residence of his son-in.law, B. r. Spcn-
eel. Colonel Boone was the last living
member Of the old fur traders and trap.
pers who visited the Rocky Mountains
@hen st. Louis was frontier trading
! post, and Western New York was the
frontier, and the Pacific shore was an
unknown coast He came of pinneer
stock. He was the son OF Jesse Bonne,
the Oldest son of Daniel B ,one, the ia
nous lioneer Of Kentucky. Colonel
Boone was rs years oil, and was b ,rn at
St. Charles, Mi souri, 10 which place his
father and grandfather moved when Ken.
tucky began to be settled regi II. He
was one OF the best representatives of the
old pioneers. He loved the free life Of
the frontier, but was far from being the
typical trapper and hunter that is pict-
ured in the novels.
HIS FIRST VISIT T) COLORADO.
Colenel Boone's first visit to " hat is
now Colorado was about the summer of
1927, fifty y'eight years ag'. He was one
of General A-hley's party, who came here
only sixteen years after General Pike
visited the country, who gave his name
to Pixies Peak, and published the first
account of the mysterious region beyond
the Great American Desert General
Ashley was member of the St. Louis
Fur Company. He brou ght with him a
company Of 800 men. They came from
st. Louis with fiat boats, polling and
pulling the bo ITS with ro PES ur the Mis-.
souri, and Platte Rivers, t., where Platte.
vile now stands, thirty-6ve miles north
# Denver Among the party was Col.
Vasqnes, who establi he'd on that trip
Ft. Vasques, which still stands at Platte.
vile. Colonel B zone was DO ,kkeeper
for General Ashley. That winter the
time was spent in Colorado. and in Wyo.
ming, nn the SWeetwater River, trading
with the Indians, and the following sum.
mer the party returned to st. Luis With
their fiat boats loaded with fur.. Col mel
Boone made frequent trips to the r ,cky
Mountains after that on trapping and
trailing expeditions, sometimes coming
with pack trains an so ne:ines with fat
'ats Sometimes he was in the employ
OF the st. Louis Far Cmpany and some.
times in the employ of the American Fur
Company, whose fields Of operations were
mostly north in Wyoming and Montana.
He was with Fremont, anil was friend
and COMPANION Of Kit Carson. Kit, in his
perilnus adventures among the In lans,
was accustomed to rely upon Bone, who
was his superior in age and experience.
One Of Kits frequent ,ayings wa-, "Give
me Colonel Bone. There is man who
isn't afraid Of anything on earth"
AN INDIAN AGENT.
For several years Colonel Boone was
an Indian agent and merchant at West.
port, Missouri. He came to Colorado To
make his permanent residence here in
1861, and opened a store on Blake street.
He kept that only year or two, when
his services were again called for a. an
Indian agent at Fort Lyon. lie sold his
store To Mr.. Gallup, and went to the
Arkansas River, settling at Bonneville,
Pueblo county, meanwh bile acting as
Indian agent. Shortly afterwards he
was sent as an In liam Commissioner to
Fort Sibb, in Indian Territory, where he
remained till the Custer massacre, when
he WAS sent north as Indian Commits ioner
to treat with the Sioux.
He spoke fluently the dialects of the
Sioux, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, P,ttawato-
mie, Kickapoo and Delaware Indians,
| and his influence among them was un.
bounded. Even Wentworth, the usliest
and most troublesome half-bree Chief,
feared and obeyea Colonel Bmne. jim
Brilgrr was the last of the Colonelr
compani ms in the first trip 20 the Rocky
| Mountains; he died only few years ago.
just after making trip to Col raao and
visiting his obi companion. For the past
four or five years Colonel b me has moi
been engaged in active work, AMI has
made his home at L, Veta in this State.
His wife died alb 'ut three years ago, at
T., Veta. He leaves five daughters:
Mrs. Judge Jones OF Pnebl., Mrs. Barne-
OF L. Veta, Mrs. Colonel Otis, who's.
husband IS commander at San Antonio.
Texas, Mrs. B. D Spencer Of Denver
and Mrs. Captain Charles H bart, who's,
husband is stationed in Montana.
Colonel B mne's complaint is supposed