THE COUNTRY EXPLORED

The New Territory of Louisiana Stretched from the Mississippi

River to the summit of

the Rocky Mountains.

Owned first by France. By

France ceded to Spain, 1762.

By Spain secretly ceded back

to France, 1800. In April,

1803, purchased from France

by the United States for

$15,000,000.

The Columbia Country The Northwest lying between

California and Canada,

and the Rocky Mountains

and the Pacific Ocean.

In 1792 visited by Captain

Robert Gray of the American

ship _Columbia_ from Boston,

who entered and named the

Columbia. The same year

visited by Captain George

Vancouver, an English navigator.

Claimed by both the

United States and England.

Awarded to the United

States by treaty of 1846.

Opening the West With Lewis and Clark By Boat, Horse and Foot Up the Great River Missouri, Across the Stony Mountains and on to the Pacific, When in the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, Young Captain Lewis, the Long Knife, and His Friend Captain Clark, the Red Head Chief, Aided by Sacajawea, the Birdwoman, Conducted Their Little Band of Men Tried and True Through the Unknown New United States · 第 11 / 62 题