In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the young United States. Americans could settle from the Mississippi to the Rockies, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Border. In the two centuries since, we settled on the vast territitory, paved it, cultivated it, mined it, grazed it, timbered it.
Untold hardships were endured, legends created and vast fortunes made.
And what have we produced in this middle third of the nation?
Here is the first in a series of articles reporting, state by state, what the Louisiana Purchase represents now. Our authors know the land, feel its unique aspects.
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Montana and the
Lewis and Clark
expedition
Arkansas
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Texas
Wyoming
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