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Resistivity Survey to Identify Archaeological Features at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
<p>The Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site (NBHSHS) was established in 1991 upon acquisition of the property by the state of Missouri. The site is located approximately two miles north of Ash Grove in the Ozarks region of southwest Missouri, and was the home of Nathan Boone (youngest son of …
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"From Daniel Boone to the Beverly Hillbillies: tales of a ""fallen"" race, 1873-1968"
… frontier setting where such figures as Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson, and others carved out the wilderness and forged a nation. Theodore Roosevelt went so far as to proclaim that these men and their progeny comprised a “Kentucky race” and a “backwoods race” that at once …
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Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Historic Cemeteries at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
The Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site is located two miles north of Ash Grove, Missouri. This site was originally the home of Nathan Boone (youngest son of Daniel Boone), his family, and their slaves. The site contains the Boone Family House, Boone Family Cemetery, and African American …
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Amphibian Community Composition And Disease Susceptibility In Ridge-Top Wetlands Of The Daniel Boone National Forest
… feature of the ridge-top ecosystem in the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) in eastern Kentucky, and support a diverse amphibian assemblage characterized by species with short larval periods. However, hundreds of hydrologically permanent ponds have been constructed along the ridge-top system in …
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Analysis of Tripolitic Chert in the Boone Formation (Lower Mississippian, Osagean), Northwest Arkansas and Southwestern Missouri
<p>The Boone Formation in northwest Arkansas and southwestern Missouri exposes a nearly complete sequence of Lower Mississippian chert-bearing carbonates deposited by a single 3rd order transgression and regression. An abundant amount of chert that has replaced limestone highlights the Boone, but …
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Amphibian and plant communities of natural and constructed upland-embedded wetlands in the Daniel Boone National Forest
… and chemical characteristics. In the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF), numerous UEWs have been constructed on ridge-tops to benefit game and bat species. Previous studies have shown that many of these constructed wetlands have permanent hydroperiods and different amphibian communities than …
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Amphibian Community Similarity Between Natural Ponds And Constructed Ponds Of Multiple Types In Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
… types of constructed ponds in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky. A suite of habitat variables including canopy cover, hydroperiod, upland coarse woody debris, aquatic vegetation, maximum depth, Ohio Wetland Rapid Assessment Score (ORAM), and pond type were recorded to examine …
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Geochemical Analysis of Mississippian Cherts and Devonian-Mississippian Novaculites, Southern Midcontinent Region
… siliceous deposits in the Lower Mississippian Boone Formation and the Devonian-Mississippian Arkansas Novaculite in the southern midcontinent. Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn ore deposits in the Tri-State District and the Northern Arkansas District were deposited by hydrothermal fluids, and …
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Variation In Bat Activity Across Upland Embedded Wetlands In The Cumberland Ranger District Of The Daniel Boone National Forest
Within the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) in Kentucky, over 800 upland-embedded wetlands (UEWs) have been constructed in past decades to provide habitat for bats and other wildlife. This research focused on identifying differences in bat activity and occupancy across natural and constructed …
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Public perception of the effectiveness of public input in the parks and recreation planning process at the Boone County fairgrounds
The United States government process is open to the public, allowing the public to be involved with decisions that will shape their lives. Professionals still dominate the planning process and make the final decisions which shape government policy. Citizens who participate in the panning process …
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Stratigraphy and Depositional Characterization of the Moorefield Shale (Middle-Late Mississippian) in its Type Area, Northeastern Arkansas (Eastern Arkoma Basin)
… succeeding the Early Mississippian (Osagean) Boone Limestone conformably and overlain conformably by the Hindsville Limestone/Batesville Sandstone. The unit contains a basal brown-black limestone and succeeding brown-black phosphatic shale. The Moorefield Shale was deposited along the broad, …
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Longitudinal variation in environmental impact at rock climbing areas in the Red River Gorge limits of acceptable change study area, Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
<p>Recreation ecology began in the 1960s to measure the impacts of recreation on ecosystems. Area of environmental impact is an important objective to assess recreational impact. However, few researchers have examined the trends of these impacts over time. This study measures the environmental area …
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Subsurface Analysis of Mississippian Tripolitic Chert in Northwest Arkansas
… Oklahoma. This thesis focuses on the analysis of Boone tripolitic chert in the subsurface utilizing wireline data available from selected gas wells within the study area. The primary goal of this project is to determine and quantify the subsurface stratigraphic position of tripolitic chert from …
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Lithologic Controls on Bedrock Channel Morphology in the Buffalo River Basin
… caprock is absent. High chi gradients in the Boone Formation, a Mississipian age limestone, typically correspond to knickpoints arrested at the upper contact. Field and laboratory analysis suggest that limestone dissolution may be an important mechanism for knickpoint initiation in the Boone …
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Place names in the central counties of Missouri
… of the following central counties of Missouri: Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, and Saline; to record the circumstances under which the names were given; and to note the subsequent history of the names. These counties belong to the group that Dr. Raymond Weeks describes as those …
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Low volume Portland cement concrete pavement performance evaluation and rehabilitation strategy selection
… existing portland cement concrete pavements in Boone County, Iowa. The research was directed at the evaluation of the factors effecting the performance the county pavements. Equations relating the design parameters to the commonly identified concrete distresses in pavements are also presented.
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
… period, especially as it was embodied by Daniel Boone and by James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo. I use these figures to examine how popular perceptions of the sustenance hunter underwent significant transformation after the Revolutionary period, and how Boone and Bumppo came to exemplify …
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