1,745,176 research outputs found
Letter (transcript): Daniel Boone to Mr. William Crowe, May 27, 1795
No full textHandwritten transcript of letter signed Daniel Boon
William M. Boone Korean War collection
No full textThis collection contains documents related to the military service of William M. Boone
Lukalo, Boone, and Joireman. Mapping Settlement Schemes in Kenya. Nairobi: NLC, 2019
No full textFibian Lukalo, Catherine Boone, and Sandra Joireman. Mapping Settlement Schemes in Kenya. Nairobi: National Commission, 2019. ISBN 978-9966-1928-5-1. This is an approximately 70 page booklet that presents maps and some descriptive statistics pertaining to all Kenyan settlement schemes since 1962 for which we were able to obtain Survey of Kenya maps. This document is to be used for scholarly purposes only (ie., not for commercial or legal purposes). The citation to the underlying dataset is: This research project is conducted in partnership between Dr. Fibian Lukalo of Kenya’s National Land Commission, Prof. Catherine Boone of the London School of Economics (funded by UK Economic and Social Research Council Grant # ES/R005753/1 'Spatial Dynamics in African Political Economy' and Kenya NACOSTI Research Permits # NACOSTI/P/16/48539/13282 and /24668), and Professors Kimberley Browne and Sandra Joireman at the University of Richmond. The data and maps have been prepared for the purposes of academic and policy research. All boundaries are approximate; they are indicative only and are not intended to have legal standing or be used for official purposes.
Users outside the NLC should cite this work as Lukalo, Boone, Browne, and Joireman, "Kenya Settlement Schemes Data Project,” London, Nairobi, and Richmond: NCL, LSE, and UoR, 2019
Boone brothers
No full textPhotograph of Walter Boone and John Willie Boone, members of the Floyd County Ramblers who played harmonica and guitar, respectively
Engraved portrait of Daniel Boone photograph
No full textThis photograph is of an engraved portrait of frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820) sitting on rock with his rifle and with his dog beside him. The engraving's lower border has Boone's signature. American artist and book illustrator Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887) created the original painting ca. 1861. Chappel portrays Boone as an older man with white hair but still rugged and purposeful.
Daniel Boone was a legendary man of the frontier in early America. He is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. He was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, but in 1750 the family moved to North Carolina. Boone participated in the French and Indian War, barely escaping with his life during General Edward Braddock’s attack on Fort Duquesne. Boone went to Kentucky in fall 1767 and spent the winter exploring and hunting. The signing of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768) by the Iroquois Indians encouraged Boone to return to Kentucky in 1769. In 1775, Richard Henderson, the head of the Transylvania Company, hired Boone to assist him in establishing a settlement in Kentucky. Boone and his settlers arrived at the site that they had chosen for their community by April 1, 1775, and immediately began to build Fort Boonesborough, one of the first settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. He spent the next several years exploring, surveying, and trapping. He also faced constant opposition from local Native Americans. During the American Revolution, Boone played an active role against the British and their Indian allies in the Ohio Country, accompanying both militia forces and regular army troops north of the Ohio River on several occasions to secure this territory for the Americans and to open it up for settlement. In February 1778, Boone and a few settlers were captured by a band of Shawnee Indians at Blue Licks (Kentucky) and held hostage at Old Chillicothe.
Boone spent the next five years in various government positions, including sheriff, deputy surveyor, and a delegate to the legislature. The frontiersman also continued to assist the American military in the struggle against the Native Americans in the Ohio Country. He had laid claim to large tracts of land in Kentucky during the 1770s, but he had filed the paperwork establishing his ownership incorrectly. The end result was that he lost all of his Kentucky lands. By 1799 he had left Kentucky for Missouri, where he died in 1820.
Boone did much to open the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, including the Ohio Country, to white settlement. In many respects, he was typical of the British colonists and the settlers who succeeded them after the American Revolution. Many of these people viewed the west as a land of opportunity and endless possibility. They faced innumerable hardships to expand the borders of the United States of America. However, in many cases, entire Native American tribes were displaced and removed due to the settlers' desire for land
Precast Concrete Elements for Accelerated Bridge Construction Final Report, Volume 1-1. Laboratory Testing of Precast Substructure Components: Boone County Bridge: TR-561, January 2009
No full textIn July 2006, construction began on an accelerated bridge project in Boone County, Iowa that was composed of precast substructure elements and an innovative, precast deck panel system. The superstructure system consisted of full-depth deck panels that were
prestressed in the transverse direction, and after installation on the prestressed concrete girders, post-tensioned in the longitudinal direction. Prior to construction, laboratory tests were completed on the precast abutment and pier cap elements. The substructure testing was to determine the punching shear strength of the elements. Post-tensioning testing and verification of the precast deck system was performed in the field. The forces in the tendons provided by the contractor were verified and losses due to the post-tensioning operation were measured. The stress (strain) distribution in the deck panels due to the post-tensioning was also measured and analyzed. The entire construction process for this bridge system was documented. Representatives from the Boone County Engineers Office, the prime contractor, precast fabricator, and researchers from Iowa State University provided feedback and suggestions for improving the constructability of this design
Recommended from our members
[News Clip: Pat Boone]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about singer Pat Boone coming to Texas to perform in Denton
Ironwork: scroll
No full textThis double scroll was created by Daniel Boone, VI from wrought iron. Although made in the 1950s, this is typical of the work Boone was creating in the 1940s. Boone was a fifth generation blacksmith, trained by his father Kelse Boone of Burnsville, N.C. He taught industrial arts students at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. in the 1940s and also operated a forge with his brother Lawrence Boone, and later by himself, in Spruce Pine, N.C
[News Clip: Pat Boone]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about singer Pat Boone coming to Texas to perform in Denton
- …
