Complex sentence: Wanting to operate independently, he moved to New Iberia on the banks of the Bayou Teche, buying land on the north side of the Bayou near present day LA Highway 87 (approximate location) to grow rice.
Split into simpler sentences: Wanting to operate independently, he moved to New Iberia on the banks of the Bayou Teche. He bought land on the north side of the Bayou near present day LA Highway 87 (approximate location) to grow rice.