The Louisiana purchase

• Autore: Hitchcock Ripley <1857-1918.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Louisiana Purchase - History
• Soggetto geografico: West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration
• Note generali: Originally published: The Louisiana purchase and the exploration, early history and building of the West. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1903.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- PART I -- DISCOVERY AND ACQUISITION -- THE SPANISH AND FRENCH PERIODS AND THE PURCHASE -- CHAPTER I. THE SPANISH DISCOVERIES -- CHAPTER II . THE FRENCH IN LOUISIANA -- CHAPTER III. THE FRENCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER IV . THE AMERICAN WESTWARD MOVEMENT -- CHAPTER V. LOUISIANA'S CRITICAL PERIOD -- CHAPTER VI . LOUISIANA AN ACTIVE ISSUE -- CHAPTER VII . THE PURCHASE ARRANGED -- CHAPTER VIII . TRANSFER TO THE UNITED STATES -- PART II -- THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION -- CHAPTER IX . EXPLORING LOUISIANA -- CHAPTER X. PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY -- CHAPTER XI. STARTING FOR THE WILDERNESS -- CHAPTER XII. IN SOUTH DAKOTA -- CHAPTER XIII. AT THE VILLAGES -- CHAPTER XIV. ACROSS MONTANA -- CHAPTER XV. THROUGH THE ROCKIES TO THE PACIFIC -- CHAPTER XVI. ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE -- CHAPTER XVII. ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS -- CHAPTER XVIII. CAPTAIN CLARK'S ADVENTURES -- CHAPTER XIX. ON THE WAY HOME -- PART III -- THE EXPLORATION OF THE WEST -- CHAPTER XX . PIKE'S EXPLORATIONS -- CHAPTER XXI. ROUTES OF EXPLORATION -- CHAPTER XXII. TYPICAL PATHFINDERS -- PART IV -- THE BUILDING OF THE WEST -- CHAPTER XXIII. A FORMATIVE PERIOD -- CHAPTER XXIV. THE COMING OF INDUSTRIES -- CHAPTER XXV. PERMANENT OCCUPATION -- APPENDIX I -- TREATY OF PURCHASE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH REPULIC -- A CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC -- APPENDIX II. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OF TODAY -- LOUISIANA -- ARKANSAS -- COLORADO -- INDIAN TERRITORY -- IOWA -- KANSAS -- MINNESOTA -- MISSOURI -- MONTANA -- NEBRASKA -- NORTH DAKOTA -- OKLAHOMA -- SOUTH DAKOTA -- WYOMING -- INDEX -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- American Occupation -- Expansion Map of the United States -- "Hunch-backed Cow" -- Pueblo of the Zuñi Indians -- De Soto's First View of the Mississippi River. ; De Soto's Expedition (1539-1542) -- Old Spanish Gateway at St. Augustine -- Spanish Explorations -- La Salle -- Louis XIV, King of France -- Autograph of Jolliet -- Father Marquette (from Trentenove's statue in the Capitol at Washington) -- La Salle at the Mouth of the Mississippi -- Autograph of Tonty -- Map of the Verendryes' Route -- Autograph of Le Moyne d'Iberville -- Autograph of Bienville -- Autograph of John Law -- New Orleans in 1719 -- The Royal Flag of France -- Montcalm -- George Rogers Clark -- George Rogers Clark's Expedition to capture Vincennes in 1779 -- Anthony Wayne -- A Flat Boat on the Ohio -- Autograph of Genet -- Autograph of Talleyrand -- Autograph of Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Alexander Hamilton -- Livingston's Autograph -- James Monroe -- Napoleon as First Consul -- Thomas Jefferson -- Wilkinson's Autograph -- The Cabildo, or City Hall -- Claiborne's Autograph -- Andrew Jackson riding along the Lines after the Battle of New Orleans -- Bad Lands of Dakota -- Meriwether Lewis (from the drawing by St. Merain) -- William Clark -- Washington One Hundred Years ago -- French Fort at Saint Louis -- In the Days of the Buffalo Hunter -- Totem of the Sioux -- Calumet, or Pipe of Peace -- Stone Hatchet -- Nature's Fortifications (from the plan drawn by Lewis and Clark) -- A Mandan Hut -- Mandan Indians using "Bull Boats" made of Buffalo Hide -- Interior of Deserted Mandan Hut -- Map of Lewis and Clark Pass -- Mouth of the Columbia River (from the plan drawn by Lewis and Clark) -- Multnomah Falls -- Meriwether Lewis -- A Mandan Chief -- Pike's Peak Trail at Minnehaha Falls -- Zebulon M. Pike -- Emigrant Train crossing the Plains -- Pike's Peak from Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs -- Whitman's Journey to save his Mission -- Sutter's Mill -- Indians attacking the "Overland Mail" -- A "Pony Express" Rider. ; Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Louisiana purchase
• ISBN: 1-58218-235-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823804303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II