Behind the Frontier Story: Historic Daniel Boone Home, St. Charles County, Missouri

We visit the Historic Daniel Boone Home in the Femme Osage Valley where we learn that the frontier story is more complicated than legend suggests.With guides Benjamin Gall, historian for the St. Charles County Parks Department, and Kami Ahrens, Director of Business Operations for the Boone Home, we learn about women like Olive Vanbibber Boone, who farmed and protected the property; about agricultural and production methods adapted from Native American knowledge; and about the enslaved men and women whose labor shaped the Boone Home, but whose names are often absent from the frontier narrative.