For Missouri, like the other portions of the Mississippi Valley, had come out of the Late War with exhaustion.

The effects of a peace were to lower her staples, lead, and furs, and she also severely felt the reaction of the paper money system, which had created extensive derangement and depression.

He possessed a cautious, penetrating mind, and was a man of elevated views.

He had looked deeply into the problem of western settlement, and the progress of American arts, education, and modes of thinking and action over the whole western world, and was then meditating a movement on the Red River of Arkansas, and eventually Texas.

He foresaw the extension in the Mississippi Valley of the American system of civilization, to the modification and exclusion of the old Spanish and French elements.
Mr.Austin accompanied me in several of my explorations.