Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a ...

The Louisiana Treaty was the result of prolonged negotiations between the U.S., France, and Spain over access to the Mississippi River.

The Louisiana Treaty was the result of prolonged negotiations between the U.S., France, and Spain over access to the Mississippi River. After the Spanish closed New Orleans to Americans in 1802, ...

By Dr. David Krainacker - 06/17/03 Jun 17, 2003 0 ...

The total cost of the Louisiana Purchase was $15 million (≈480.8 years of dedicated work at a $15/hour job), divided into two components: $11.25 million (≈360.6 years of labor at $15/hour) was paid ...

1803: Louisiana Purchase 1819: Florida 1845: Texas 1846: Oregon and Washington 1848: California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and more 1854: Parts of Arizona and New Mexico 1867: Alaska 1898: Hawaii ...

By 1867, a recovered Seward had crafted a treaty with Denmark to purchase two of the three islands, St. Thomas and St. John, for $7.5 million.

The U.S. made the Gadsden Purchase in 1853 to acquire a nearly 30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in a treaty signed by the American ambassador ...

The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago and other documents are all part of Pipkin’s “chain of title ...

On Oct. 20, 1803, U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty by a vote of 24-7. The agreement, which provided for the purchase of the western half of the Mississippi ...