The roads are all self-made, but repaired if they become destroyed. Independence, a town on the Missouri River, has a court house, hotels, stores, and 2000 inhabitants. Thus the town is already quite cultivated- more people means more opportunities for work, leadership positions,and money. At the Kansas House is a barn that is used for granary work. In Westport are saddlers, blacksmiths, and merchants.
Business is very brisk, on account of the great number of emigrants fitting out here.
It was completely unindustrialized and the soil was virtually rock free, unlike the New England Soil. The Missouri and Kansas Rivers provide transportation for both people and goods. Already there were Native Americans living on this territory for many years and they had learned to survive. They were capable of finding ways to eat on this land, they had found ways to make a basic living by trade with other tribes and now they were finding ways to survive with the white people who were embarking on their land. They know what they needed and they knew how to get it.