Editing Daniel Boone (section)

==Businessman and politician==
After the Revolutionary War ended, Boone resettled in Limestone (later renamed [[Maysville, Kentucky]]), then a booming Ohio River port. He kept a tavern and worked as a surveyor, horse trader, and land speculator. In 1784, on Boone's 50th birthday, frontier historian [[John Filson]] published ''[[The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke]]''. The popular book included a chronicle of Boone's adventures, which made Boone a celebrity.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|p=236}}{{sfn|Morgan|2007|p=344}}

As settlers poured into Kentucky, the [[Northwest Indian War|border war]] with American Indians north of the Ohio River resumed. In September 1786, Boone took part in a military expedition into the Ohio Country led by [[Benjamin Logan]]. Returning to Limestone, Boone housed and fed Shawnee who had been captured during the raid, and helped to negotiate a truce and prisoner exchange. Although the war would not end until the American victory at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] eight years later, the 1786 expedition was the last time Boone saw military action.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|pp=249–258}}{{#tag:ref|Most biographers tell a story of Boone allowing his friend [[Blue Jacket]], a Shawnee chief, to escape while in Boone's custody in Limestone. According to the scholarly biography of Blue Jacket, the chief escaped at a later time.{{sfn|Sugden|2000|p=82}}|group=note}}

Boone was initially prosperous in Limestone, owning seven [[History of slavery in the United States|slaves]], a relatively large number for Kentucky at the time.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|pp=236–237}} In 1786, he purchased a Pennsylvania enslaved woman, age of about 20, for "Ninety poundes Current Lawfull (sic) money."<ref name=":0" /> A leader, he served as militia colonel, sheriff, and county coroner.{{sfn|Morgan|2007|p=349}} In 1787, he was again elected to the Virginia state assembly, this time from [[Bourbon County, Kentucky|Bourbon County]].{{sfn|Morgan|2007|p=366}} He began to have financial troubles after engaging in land speculation, buying and selling claims to tens of thousands of acres. These ventures ultimately failed because of the chaotic nature of land speculation in frontier Kentucky and Boone's poor business instincts.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|pp=245–248}} Frustrated with the legal hassles that went with land speculation, in 1789 Boone moved upriver to [[Point Pleasant, West Virginia|Point Pleasant]], Virginia (now [[West Virginia]]). There he operated a trading post and occasionally worked as a surveyor's assistant. That same year, when Virginia created [[Kanawha County, West Virginia|Kanawha County]], Boone became the lieutenant colonel of the county militia.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|p=266}} In 1791, he was elected to the Virginia legislature for the third time. He contracted to provide supplies for the Kanawha militia, but his debts prevented him from buying goods on credit, so he closed his store and returned to hunting and trapping,{{sfn|Faragher|1992|pp=268–270}} though he was often hampered by [[rheumatism]].{{sfn|Brown|2008|p=222}}

In 1795, Boone and his wife moved back to Kentucky, living on land owned by their son [[Daniel Morgan Boone]] in what became [[Nicholas County, Kentucky|Nicholas County]]. The next year, Boone applied to [[Isaac Shelby]], the first governor of the new state of Kentucky, for a contract to widen the [[Wilderness Road]] into a wagon route, but the contract was awarded to someone else.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|pp=272–273}}{{sfn|Brown|2008|p=224}} Meanwhile, lawsuits over conflicting land claims continued to make their way through the Kentucky courts. Boone's remaining land claims were sold off to pay legal fees and taxes, but he no longer paid attention to the process. In 1798, a warrant was issued for Boone's arrest after he ignored a summons to testify in a court case, although the sheriff never found him.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|p=273}} That same year, the Kentucky assembly named [[Boone County, Kentucky|Boone County]] in his honor.{{sfn|Faragher|1992|p=274}}