The Louisiana Purchase & the Exploration, Early History and Building of the West

The Louisiana Purchase by Ripley Hitchcock brings to life 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 western expansion of the United States. Lewis and Clarke’s descriptions of