A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . elp inlending tools and labor. It must have been a beautiful sight tohave seen a hundred men out in the long, narrow fields work-ing side by side, throwing jokes, singing songs, and making thehills echo with their laughter. Certainly the Frenchman madefarming a pleasure. The American farmer was quite different. He wantedto make a living but he was equally interested in becc^ningwealthy. He laughed at the little forty acre lots of the wanted hundreds of
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . elp inlending tools and labor. It must have been a beautiful sight tohave seen a hundred men out in the long, narrow fields work-ing side by side, throwing jokes, singing songs, and making thehills echo with their laughter. Certainly the Frenchman madefarming a pleasure. The American farmer was quite different. He wantedto make a living but he was equally interested in becc^ningwealthy. He laughed at the little forty acre lots of the wanted hundreds of acres, sometimes he wanted American knew that some day land in Missouri wouldgrow in value (in money) just as it had in the east and as itwas growing in Kentucky. But to own large farms and makea living on them, meant isolation in those days. Therefore,the American farmer settled farther back in the country. Heliked such a life. By nature he was independent and hewanted to live far enough away that he could not hear thebark of his neighbors dog. He wanted to be next to the 52 IIlSTORV OK MiSSOUiil AND MiSSOURIANS. Missouri Under Spanish Rule, 1770-1804 ^^ forest abounding in wild game that could be killed with hisrifle or caught b} his traps. The American farmer was not un-sociable and he was always hospitable but he lived so far fromothers that sociability was not so easy as with the Americans also co-operated as in building houses, house-raising as they called it, and sharing fresh meat. However,distance with roads frequently impassable, prevented themfrom aiding each other as did the French. Even in building houses the French and the Americansdiffered. Both made their homes out of hewed logs. TheFrench placed the logs on end, like a picket fence only as closelytogether as possible. The spaces between were filled withmortar or clay and then whitewashed. The Americans placedthe logs lengthwise, one on another. Both styles were rarelyover one-story high
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