The Louisiana purchase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hitchcock, Ripley, 1857-1918.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Louisiana Purchase--History.

Louisiana Purchase.

West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Louisiana Purchase by Ripley Hitchcock offers the journals of Lewis and Clark on their mission to explore the greatest land purchase in history. In a transaction that doubled the size of the United States, this book investigates not only the physical boundaries but the financial agreements between the United States and Napoleon Bonaparte, and the importance of New Orleans, Florida and the Missouri River in the westward expansion of the United States. Lewis and Clarke's descriptions of the hunched back cows (bison), massive grizzly bears and the sheer size of the country they crossed in their search for the best route to the Pacific Ocean are remarkable. Also included are the entries of Pike and his military explorations throughout the central part of the purchase.

Contents:

Intro

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

PART I

DISCOVERY AND ACQUISITION

THE SPANISH AND FRENCH PERIODS AND THE PURCHASE

CHAPTER I. THE SPANISH DISCOVERIES

CHAPTER II . THE FRENCH IN LOUISIANA

CHAPTER III. THE FRENCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER IV . THE AMERICAN WESTWARD MOVEMENT

CHAPTER V. LOUISIANA'S CRITICAL PERIOD

CHAPTER VI . LOUISIANA AN ACTIVE ISSUE

CHAPTER VII . THE PURCHASE ARRANGED

CHAPTER VIII . TRANSFER TO THE UNITED STATES

PART II

THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

CHAPTER IX . EXPLORING LOUISIANA

CHAPTER X. PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY

CHAPTER XI. STARTING FOR THE WILDERNESS

CHAPTER XII. IN SOUTH DAKOTA

CHAPTER XIII. AT THE VILLAGES

CHAPTER XIV. ACROSS MONTANA

CHAPTER XV. THROUGH THE ROCKIES TO THE PACIFIC

CHAPTER XVI. ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE

CHAPTER XVII. ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER XVIII. CAPTAIN CLARK'S ADVENTURES

CHAPTER XIX. ON THE WAY HOME

PART III

THE EXPLORATION OF THE WEST

CHAPTER XX . PIKE'S EXPLORATIONS

CHAPTER XXI. ROUTES OF EXPLORATION

CHAPTER XXII. TYPICAL PATHFINDERS

PART IV

THE BUILDING OF THE WEST

CHAPTER XXIII. A FORMATIVE PERIOD

CHAPTER XXIV. THE COMING OF INDUSTRIES

CHAPTER XXV. PERMANENT OCCUPATION

APPENDIX I

TREATY OF PURCHASE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH REPULIC

A CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

APPENDIX II. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OF TODAY

LOUISIANA

ARKANSAS

COLORADO

INDIAN TERRITORY

IOWA

KANSAS

MINNESOTA

MISSOURI

MONTANA

NEBRASKA

NORTH DAKOTA

OKLAHOMA

SOUTH DAKOTA

WYOMING

INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

American Occupation

Expansion Map of the United States

"Hunch-backed Cow"

Pueblo of the Zuñi Indians

De Soto's First View of the Mississippi River.

De Soto's Expedition (1539-1542)

Old Spanish Gateway at St. Augustine

Spanish Explorations

La Salle

Louis XIV, King of France

Autograph of Jolliet

Father Marquette (from Trentenove's statue in the Capitol at Washington)

La Salle at the Mouth of the Mississippi

Autograph of Tonty

Map of the Verendryes' Route

Autograph of Le Moyne d'Iberville

Autograph of Bienville

Autograph of John Law

New Orleans in 1719

The Royal Flag of France

Montcalm

George Rogers Clark

George Rogers Clark's Expedition to capture Vincennes in 1779

Anthony Wayne

A Flat Boat on the Ohio

Autograph of Genet

Autograph of Talleyrand

Autograph of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Alexander Hamilton

Livingston's Autograph

James Monroe

Napoleon as First Consul

Thomas Jefferson

Wilkinson's Autograph

The Cabildo, or City Hall

Claiborne's Autograph

Andrew Jackson riding along the Lines after the Battle of New Orleans

Bad Lands of Dakota

Meriwether Lewis (from the drawing by St. Merain)

William Clark

Washington One Hundred Years ago

French Fort at Saint Louis

In the Days of the Buffalo Hunter

Totem of the Sioux

Calumet, or Pipe of Peace

Stone Hatchet

Nature's Fortifications (from the plan drawn by Lewis and Clark)

A Mandan Hut

Mandan Indians using "Bull Boats" made of Buffalo Hide

Interior of Deserted Mandan Hut

Map of Lewis and Clark Pass

Mouth of the Columbia River (from the plan drawn by Lewis and Clark)

Multnomah Falls

Meriwether Lewis

A Mandan Chief

Pike's Peak Trail at Minnehaha Falls

Zebulon M. Pike

Emigrant Train crossing the Plains

Pike's Peak from Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs

Whitman's Journey to save his Mission

Sutter's Mill

Indians attacking the "Overland Mail"

A "Pony Express" Rider.

Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Notes:

Originally published: The Louisiana purchase and the exploration, early history and building of the West. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1903.

ISBN:

1-58218-235-3

OCLC:

70768325