| 1 | Author: | Brooks, Noah | Requires cookie* |
| Title: | First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition
of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6  | ||
| Published: | 1998 | ||
| Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | ||
| Description: | 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. The details of this purchase were arranged in Paris (on the part of the United States) by Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe. The French government was represented by Barbé-Marbois, Minister of the Public Treasury. | ||
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