The French travel up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to get to Missouri. The Spanish have asked Americans to come to Missouri. Most of those who do are from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Some have slaves. American - They live in log cabins.
Furniture is homemade.
They eat salt pork and cornbread. Most people are farmers. Ax, gun, few simple tools. Canoe, flatboat, keelboat. Many of these pioneers travel down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River to reach Missouri.