History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest

Lesson Four: Americans Enter the Rivalry

The Louisiana Purchase

Left, from Frank Bond, "Louisiana " and the Louisiana Purchase. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1912. Map No. 4.

Below, from Marshall Sprague, So Vast and Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1974.
p. 312. (Courtesy Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.)

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