The Louisiana Purchase
By: by Peter Benoit
Series: Cornerstones of freedom
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780531230602; 9780531281604
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Discover the people behind the biggest real estate transaction in U.S. history, and the extraordinary expedition that explored and mapped it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene : the age of discovery; title: Growing pains; title: Favored by fortune; title: Mixed blessings; title: Corps of Discovery; title: Map of the events : what happened here?; title: The story continues : a nation expands.