Boone, when he moved into Missouri, was but a forerunner among the pioneers; many others followed him.

He himself became an official under the Spanish Government, and received a grant of lands.

Of the other frontiersmen who went into the Spanish territory, some, like Boone, continued to live as hunters and backwoods farmers.

[Footnote: American State Papers, Public Lands, II., pp.

10, 872.] Others settled in St.Louis, or some other of the little creole towns, and joined the parties of French traders who ascended the Missouri and the Mississippi to barter paint, beads, powder, and blankets for the furs of the Indians.
Uneasiness of the Spaniards.
Their Religious Intolerance.
The Spanish authorities were greatly alarmed at the incoming of the American settlers.