print email comment close Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/lapurchase/ Description: This presentation about the Louisiana Purchase "focuses on the various documents -- from maps to newspapers to cultural artifact -- that help to describe the region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama into what is now the state of Montana." It features almost 120 items from Library of Congress collections, and an essay on European explorations and the Louisiana Purchase. From the American Memory project, Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress LII Database Information: Record 25653 created by Jennifer English on 03/10/2008 Last modification on 03/19/2008 Published: 03/19/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25653