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A wilderness so immense : the Louisiana Purchase and the destiny of America
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- Creator
- Jon Kukla
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003
- Physical Details
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- x, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375408120, 0375408126
- OCLC
- ocm50253149
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-416) and index.
- Piece by piece -- Carlos III and Spanish Louisiana -- Poor Colonel Monroe! -- Long train of intrigue -- Touch of a feather -- Bourbons on the rocks -- Questions of loyalty -- Banners of blood -- New era in world history -- Mr. Pinckney's mission -- Affairs of Louisiana -- Embryo of a Tornado -- Selling a ship -- Midnight in the garden of Rue Trudon -- Immense wilderness -- Fluctuations of the political thermometer -- Various gabble of tongues -- Treaty of 1795 between the United States and Spain -- Louisiana purchase treaty -- Louisiana purchase conventions -- Draft Amendments to the Constitution, July-August 1803