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The 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made when reliable information about the territory was virtually nonexistent. In 1805, General James Wilkinson ordered United States army officer Pike, then a lieutenant, to undertake an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River and to assert American authority over the Native Americans and over the English traders in the upper Mississippi Valley. After his return to St. Louis in 1806, Pike received orders...
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An account of Twain's experiences as an apprentice riverboat pilot in the days of the great Mississippi steamboats.
Both a memoir and a travel book, Mark Twain recalls his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and then many years after, recounts a trip as passenger along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans,...
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