A rainy day visit to the Daniel Boone settlement in Defiance MO.
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The walls are made of limestone and are 2 feet thick, which provided protection and insulation. .
Daniel Boone brought settlers here by invitation of the Spanish Empire in 1799. I didn't realize this because I always thought in terms of the French settling the St. Louis area first, but the Spanish gained hold of Missouri and the Louisiana territory after the French Indian war in 1762.
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However they gave up on it about forty years later, finding the settlers too troublesome with no real interest in loyalty to the Spanish Empire. They gave it back to the French, who sold it to Thomas Jefferson.
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Any who, ol' DB was a baddass, though he preferred to avoid conflict when he could due to his Quaker upbringing. Through the course of his life he was a renowned marksman, hunter, trapper, frontiersman, soldier, officer, surveyer, and more. He died in 1820 at the age of 85, here in his son Nathan's home.
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