First Across The Continent
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781419119774
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; United States - Colonial Period; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA
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.