First Across the Continent
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781404302631
Subjects: American history; World history; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; General
First sentence: The people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had sold to us the vast tract of land known as the country of Louisiana.