The Great Acquisition
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Louisiana Purchase
Contributors: James P Ronda (Preface)
Publisher: Lewis & Clark Interpretive Association
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781883844059
Subjects: United States - State & Local - South; United States; History: American; History; History - U.S.; United States - 19th Century; Chronological Period/1800-1850; Cultural Region/Deep South; Geographic Orientation/Louisiana; History / U.S.; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); History/United States - 19th Century; Louisiana Purchase; Territorial expansion
First sentence: That Louisiana would become the object of so much attention would have struck most seventeenth and eighteenth-century observers as perplexing, if not amusing.