At last, with the proceeds of these expeditions he was able to pay the debts he had left behind in Kentucky thirty years before.

The story runs that Daniel had only fifty cents remaining when all the claims had been settled, but so contented was he to be able to look an honest man in the face that he was in no disposition to murmur over his poverty.
When after a long and happy life his wife died in 1813, Boone lived with one or other of his sons * and sometimes with Flanders Calloway.

Nathan Boone, with whom Daniel chiefly made his home, built what is said to have been the first stone house in Missouri.

Evidently the old pioneer disapproved of stone houses and of the "luxuries" in furnishings which were then becoming possible to the new generation, for one of his biographers speaks of visiting him in a log addition to his son's house; and when Chester Harding, the painter, visited him in 1819 for the purpose of doing his portrait, he found Boone dwelling in a small log cabin in Nathan's yard.

When Harding entered, Boone was broiling a venison steak on the end of his ramrod.