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title: account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana
Subject: West (U. S.), Discovery and exploration, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River, Discovery and exploration, New Mexico, Discovery and exploration, United States, Discovery and exploration
Date created ms: 1810
Abstract: An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun Rivers. Performed by order of the government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain, when conducted through these provinces by order of the captain-general, in the year 1807.

title: Views of Louisiana; Together With A Journal Of A Voyage Up The Missouri River, In 1811
Subject: Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River, Discovery and exploration, Missouri River, Discovery and exploration, West (U. S.), Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley
Date created ms: 1814
Abstract: Views of Louisiana. Together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811, by H. M. Brackenridge, Esq.

title: Message from the President of the United States, communicating discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar; with a statistical account of the countries adjacent, February 19, 1806
Subject: Discoveries in geography, United States, Discovery and exploration, West (U. S.), Description and travel, Indians of North America, Clark, William, 1770-1838, Ouachita River (Ark. and La.), Arkansas, Discovery and exploration, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration, Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809, Sibley, John, 1757-1837, Dunbar, William, 1749-1810, United States. 9th Cong., 1st sess., 1805-1806. Senate
Date created ms: 1806
Abstract: Message from the President of the United States, communicating discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar; with a statistical account of the countries adjacent, February 19, 1806.

title: Medical Repository
Subject: Discoveries in geography, North America, United States, Discovery and exploration, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration, Ouachita River (Ark. and La.), Hot Springs (Ark.), Discoveries in geography, History, 19th century, Washington (D. C.), Description and travel, New Orleans (La.), Description and travel, Hot springs, Arkansas, Hot springs, Louisiana, Lead mines and mining, Louisiana
Date created ms: 1805
Abstract: Articles include: Expedition to explore that part of Louisiana which lies near the Ouachita River -- Route from Washington to Orleans -- A description of the hot springs and volcanic appearances in the country adjoining the River Ouachita, in Louisiana: Communicated in a letter from Joseph Macrery, M.D. of Natchez to Dr. Miller -- The greatest lead mines in the world existing in Upper Louisiana.

title: Carta del Oceano Atlantico Setentrional
mods_titleInfo_subTitle_ms: con las Derrotas que siguió Dn. Cristobal Colon hasta su Recalada á las primeras Islas que descubrió en el Nueva Mundo [with the Ship's Courses that Christopher Columbus followed]
Subject: America, Discovery and exploration, North America, Discovery and exploration, Maps, Early works to 1800
Date Issued: 1492, 1502
Abstract: North Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Columbus' routes to the New World in 1492, 1495, 1498, 1502; Canary Islands, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic seabord of the United States, Atlantic Ocean.

title: Costes aux environs de la Riviere de Misisipi
Subject: Gulf States, Discovery and exploration, French, Maps, Mexico, Gulf of, Discovery and exploration, French
Date created ms: 1701
Abstract: 1 map 46 x 36 cm.

title: Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud'oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy
Subject: Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley, Louisiana, Description and travel, Mississippi River, Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley, History, To 1803
Date created ms: 1864
Abstract: Louis Hennepin, a Recollet Friar (member of an order of reformed Franciscans), arrived in New France in 1675. After spending four years as an itinerant missionary, Hennepin joined an expedition of the great French explorer Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle, intent on probing the Mississippi. Hennepin and two companions ventured up the Mississippi as far as the Falls of St. Anthony (the site of Minneapolis), and returned to the Great Lakes by an alternate route. In 1683, Hennepin published an account of his adventures, Description de la Louisiane. An immediate best-seller, the book went through numerous editions and was one of the most widely read first-hand descriptions of New France. The map that accompanies the volume, entitled "Carte de la Nouvelle France et de la Louisiane Nouvellement découverte," makes it the first cartographic appearance of Louisiana as a place-name.

title: Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Riviere de Missisipi (sic), découverte par seu Mr. de la Salle, es (sic) années 1681 et 1686, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale,
mods_titleInfo_subTitle_ms: et de plusieurs autres Rivieres jusqu' icy inconnuës, qui tombent dans la Baye de St. Louis. Dresse par le Sr. Joutel, qui êtoit de ce Voyage.
Subject: North America, Maps, Gulf of Mexico, Maps, Discovery and exploration
Date Issued: 1713
Abstract: Map of North America from Gulf of Mexico to Atlantic Ocean showing area of La Salle's voyages; Mississippi River, colonial Louisiana, Central America, Caribbean. ------- Published in Joutel's "Journal Historique du Derniere Voyage que seu M. de la Sale

title: Voyage au Nouveau-Mexique, à la suite d'une expédition ordonnée par le gouvernement des Etats-Unis. v. 2
Subject: West (U. S.), Description and travel, United States, Discoveries in geography, Mississippi River, Description and travel, New Mexico, Description and travel, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration
Date created ms: 1812
Abstract: Voyage au Nouveau-Mexique, à la suite d'une expédition ordonnée par le gouvernement des États-Unis, pour reconnoître les sources des rivières Arkansas, Kansès, La Plate, et Pierre-Jaune, dans l'intérieur de la Louisiane occidentale. Précédé d'une excursion aux sources du Mississippi, pendant les années 1805, 1806, et 1807. Par le major Z. M. Pike. Traduit de l'anglais par M. Breton, ... Orné d'une nouvelle carte de la Louisiane, en trois parties.

title: Voyage au Nouveay-Mexique, à la suite d'une expédition ordonnée par le gouvernement des Etats-Unis. v. 1
Subject: West (U. S.), Description and travel, United States, Discoveries in geography, Mississippi River, Description and travel, New Mexico, Description and travel, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration
Date created ms: 1812
Abstract: Voyage au Nouveau-Mexique, à la suite d'une expédition ordonnée par le gouvernement des États-Unis, pour reconnoître les sources des rivières Arkansas, Kansès, La Plate, et Pierre-Jaune, dans l'intérieur de la Louisiane occidentale. Précédé d'une excursion aux sources du Mississippi, pendant les années 1805, 1806, et 1807. Par le major Z. M. Pike. Traduit de l'anglais par M. Breton, ... Orné d'une nouvelle carte de la Louisiane, en trois parties.

title: Account of the Red River, in Louisiana, drawn up from the returns of Messrs. Freeman & Custis to the War Office of the United States, who explored the same, in the year of 1806.
Subject: Red River (Tex.-La.), Discovery and exploration
Date created ms: 1806
Abstract: Charts: The following observations were made at Natchitoches -- Meteorological observations made on the Red River in 1806.

title: We shaped the West
Subject: Education, United States, Computer network resources, Teaching, United States, Computer network resources, United States, History, Study and teaching, Aids and devices, United States, Territorial Expansion, United States, Discovery and exploration, Louisiana Purchase, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Texas, History, Republic, 1836-1846, African Americans, Women, Indians of North America, History, Chinese Americans, History, Primary sources & original works, Study and teaching
Date created ms: 2002
Abstract: Lesson Abstract: Students examine primary resources such as letters and diaries as they investigate the individuals who helped shape the American West. Student collaborative productions include an atlas of U. S. expansion through the 1870s, a research journal, a timeline of important events related to the frontier, a concept map of frontier economic activities, newspaper articles for Harper's Weekly to be used to compile a class edition of Harper's Weekly. Note: this is not an introduction to U. S. expansion. Part I is a review of territorial expansion; Part II is an exploration into why groups moved west during the post-Civil War period and the history of those groups in the development of the west.

title: History module: Discovery, expansion, settlement
Subject: United States, Discovery and exploration, United States, Territorial Expansion, Education, United States, Computer network resources, Teaching, United States, Computer network resources, United States, History, Study and teaching, Aids and devices
Date created ms: 2002
Abstract: Abstract: This module traces the physical establishment and growth of the United States from pre-European Native American homelands through the territorial growth of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Important considerations include 1) the impact of technology, 2) the shaping of foreign and domestic political, social and economic policies, 3) the movement and interaction of people, and 4) the shaping of a national identity as each of these topics relate to discovery and expansion.

title: Louisiana Purchase fact finders
Subject: Education, United States, Computer network resources, Teaching, United States, Computer network resources, United States, History, Study and teaching, Aids and devices, United States, Territorial Expansion, United States, Discovery and exploration, Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Madison, James, 1751-1836, Monroe, James, 1758-1831, Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Date created ms: 2002
Abstract: Lesson Abstract: This fact-finding search centers around the United States' 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France. Students use primary and secondary resources to investigate who-what-when-where-why questions concerning the Louisiana Purchase. Issues considered include the domestic and international motivations that facilitated the purchase, the constitutional and political issues surrounding Jefferson's decision, and the immediate and long-term impact this land exchange had on the development of the United States. This Internet lesson can be modified to produce a paper-based lesson.

title: Charting the territorial expansion of the United States, 1783-1870
Subject: Education, United States, Computer network resources, Teaching, United States, Computer network resources, United States, History, Study and teaching, Aids and devices, United States, Territorial Expansion, United States, Discovery and exploration, Louisiana Purchase
Date created ms: 2002
Abstract: Lesson Abstract: This "when-where-what" activity asks students to use Internet timelines and information summaries to explain the territorial growth of the United States. Student products will include a chart illustrating the territorial expansion of the United States and the motivation behind that expansion.

title: Louisiana Purchase: Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery
Subject: Education, United States, Computer network resources, Teaching, United States, Computer network resources, United States, History, Study and teaching, Aids and devices, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), Indians of North America, History, United States, Discovery and exploration, Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809, Clark, William, 1770-1838
Date created ms: 2002
Abstract: Lesson Abstract: While collaborating with a partner, students examine extracts from the journals of Lewis and Clark as they research the people, places and events encountered by the Corps of Discovery. In the course of their research, students devise a timeline of the Corps' journey, complete a map that traces the route of Lewis and Clark, and demonstrate their understanding of the journal extracts by producing three pieces of original writing.

title: New France, exhibiting the discoveries of Marquette, La Salle, and other Frenchmen.
Subject: New France, Discovery and exploration, Early maps
Date Issued: 1692
Abstract: New France, exploration, Marquette, La Salle. ---- Map No. 5 1692, from unidentified source.

title: Missouri Territory formerly Louisiana
Subject: Discovery and exploration, Missouri territory
Date Issued: 1814
Abstract: Missouri territory, from Gulf of Mexico to Canada. Lewis and Clark exploration.

title: America septentrionalis
Subject: North America, Discovery and exploration, Maps, North America, Maps
Date created ms: 1653
Abstract: col. map 47 x 55 cm.

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