The Territory of Louisiana originated in a congressional act of March 26, 1804, under which Congress divided the 1803 Louisiana Purchase at thirty-three degrees of north latitude, …

Oklahoma did not become part of the United States until 1803, when the new American republic acquired the Louisiana Purchase. The U.S. Congress divided the purchased domain into two …

Coronado treks through present-day Oklahoma in search of gold. Fellow Spaniard Juan de Oñate would try to find the famed gold in the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1601. 1682: French explorer …

The Red River boundary controversy started when the United States purchased the Territory of Louisiana from France in 1803 during Pres. Thomas Jefferson's administration. Spain and the …

Jan 15, 2010 · By the Treaty of Paris (1763) part of Louisiana, including Oklahoma, was ceded by France to Spain. Despite Spanish efforts to gain trading supremacy, France under Napoleon …

DU TISNE'S EXPEDITION INTO OKLAHOMA, 1719. One of the main purposes of France in settling Louisiana was the development of an overland route for trade and com-merce with the …

By the terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty negotiated a few months later, the Louisiana Purchase was defined on the west by a line running along the 100th Meridian from the Red River north …

Jan 15, 2010 · Undeterred by potential human barriers, after establishing a trading center at Nachitoches in northwestern Louisiana in 1713–14, French voyageurs began to explore the …

Jan 15, 2010 · Below Lake Texoma the Red River receives water from the rivers draining southeastern Oklahoma through the Coastal Plain. The Clear Boggy, the Blue, and the …

At the peak of his success he ran approximately twenty-eight trading stores, six plantations along the Arkansas and Texas borders, and a sugar plantation in Louisiana. The two largest …