Once at least--this, was in Cincinnati where he was taking on supplies--some one asked him why, at his age, he was leaving the settled country to dare the frontier once more.
"Too crowded," he answered; "I want more elbow-room!" Boone settled at the Femme Osage Creek on the Missouri River, twenty-five miles above St.Charles, where the Missouri flows into the Mississippi.

There were four other Kentucky families at La Charette, as the French inhabitants called the post, but these were the only Americans.

The Spanish authorities granted Boone 840 acres of land, and here Daniel built the last cabin home he was to erect for himself and his Rebecca.
The region pleased him immensely.

The governmental system, for instance, was wholly to his mind.

Taxes were infinitesimal.