A Half Century Of Conflict
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781419101441
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; History: American; History; History - U.S.; Canada; USA; Canada - General; United States - Colonial Period
First sentence: The occupation by France of the lower Mississippi gave a strong impulse to the exploration of the West, by supplying a base for discovery, stimulating enterprise by the longing to find gold mines, open trade with New Mexico, and get a fast hold on the countries beyond the Mississippi in anticipation of Spain; and to these motives was soon added the hope of finding an overland way to the Pacific.