First Across the Continent
Publisher: Digital Scanning
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781582186825
Subjects: Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Adventurers & Explorers; Historical - U.S.
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.