The opening of the Mississippi : a struggle for supremacy in the American interior /

The opening of the Mississippi : a struggle for supremacy in the American interior / by Frederic Austin Ogg ...

The book is primarily the history of the discovery, exploration, and competition for navigation rights and accesses to the Mississippi River prior to the War of 1812.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ogg, Frederic Austin, 1878-1951.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Subjects:
Mississippi River > Discovery and exploration.
Mississippi River Valley > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Content: The importance of the Mississippi Valley
  • The Spanish discovery of the Mississippi
  • The search of the French for the Mississsippi
  • La Salle and the opening of the great west
  • The exploration of the Upper Mississippi
  • The beginning of Louisiana
  • The struggle of the English and French for position
  • English and Spanish neighbors after 1763
  • The navigation of the Mississippi, 1783-1795
  • Napoleon and the Louisiana country
  • The Louisiana Purchase
  • Congress and the problems of national expansion
  • Establishing the American regime
  • The Territory of Orleans and the New Louisiana.

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