It seems very strange that, in that dismal wilderness, Crockett should not have preferred to build his cabin near so kind a neighbor.

But so it was.

He chose his lot at a distance of seven miles from any companionship.
"And so I got the boatmen," he writes, "all to go out with me to where I was going to settle, and we slipped up a cabin in little or no time.
I got from the boat four barrels of meal, one of salt, and about ten gallons of whiskey." For these he paid in labor, agreeing to accompany the boatmen up the river as far as their landing-place at McLemone's Bluff..