1811
Reaches Sainte Geneviève, Upper Louisiana (Missouri), in early spring.
April 6.—Dissolves partnership with Rozier, and returns to Henderson afoot.
Joins in a commission business with his brother-in-law, Thomas W. Bakewell.
December.—Meets Vincent Nolte when returning to Louisville from the East, and descends the Ohio in his flatboat.
1812
The annus mirabilis in Kentucky, marked by a series of earthquakes, which begins December 16, 1811, and furnishes material for "Episodes."
Commission house of Audubon and Bakewell is opened by the latter in New Orleans, but is quickly suppressed by the war, which breaks out in June.
Spring.—Starts a retail store, on his own account, at Henderson.