Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1904 — Too Metropolitan. [ARTICLE]

Too Metropolitan.

Daniel Boone, Who blazed the way for civilization in Kentucky, loved always to be a little In advance of the tide of emigration, where he need not be annoyed by the presence of other human beings. He went on to Missouri when Kentucky became “too crowded,” and a gentleman who met him out there in 1803 records that he was about to go still farther. “I saw and conversed with Daniel Boone,” he wrote to his friends, “who was residing at the upper settlement on the Missouri. Although he was then sixty-eight years old, he was remarkably active, walked erect with much ease and agility, but observed that he could not Shoot quite so well as formerly on a dark day. “ ‘l'm going to leave here right soon,’ said. Boone. ‘lt’s getting too crowded. X never did like city Ilf a There’s as many aa ten families settled. rounti here now, and I’m tired of them* And there’s more coming. I’m going to take out and move away up-river, where I can live alone in comfort’ ”