For Little Rock Public Radio, this is Dan Boice, with Naming Arkansas.
While Davy Crockett may or may not have given his name to an Arkansas town, one frontiersman who is certainly immortalized in Arkansas is the famous hunter, trapper, and explorer Daniel Boone. Boone was born in 1734 in Pennsylvania, and his Kentucky settlement that became Boonesborough is a popular tourist destination. But Boone kept moving west, and eventually died in Missouri. In 1869, the Arkansas legislature established Boone County and named it in honor of the frontiersman. Farther south, some say that the Logan County town of Booneville was named for Captain Benjamin Bonneville, but a more likely story is that the Logan family, early settlers of the county, were related to Daniel Boone. Finally, prior to 1843, the Washington County town of Cane Hill was known as Boonsboro, giving the peripatetic Daniel Boone three distinctive place names in the Arkansas Ozarks.
For the University of Arkansas at Monticello, this is Dan Boice.