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Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase.

Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase.

Books by Marshall Sprague. So Vast, So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase by Marshall Sprague (1974-08-01). Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold.

So Vast, So Beautiful. Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase. See a Problem? We’d love your help. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem.

Marshall Sprague (March 14, 1909 – September 9, 1994) was an American journalist in New York, Paris, and China and author of books about western United States History. From Ohio, he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado to recuperate following a diagnosis of tuberculosis and settled there. He received the Colorado Authors League Top Hand Award for Massacre: The Tragedy At White River and A Gallery of Dudes.

Nominally focused toward the Louisiana Purchase, the book ranges from the psychology of various Spanish explorers to Louis .

Nominally focused toward the Louisiana Purchase, the book ranges from the psychology of various Spanish explorers to Louis XIV's preference for spending billions on seizing a few more acres of Europe, instead of systematically expanding New World colonies. Sprague has a good and affectionate time with the ""elastic"" - mot juste - Thomas Jefferson while the book hints, rather than says, that the Purchase essentially represented a loan to France. Indian lore, diplomatic scurries, cartographic problems. a pleasant exercise in discursive history.

Louisiana and the purchase. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Bibliographic Details. Title: So Vast, So Beautiful a Land; : Louisiana. Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston. Publication Date: 1974. I am a small brick and mortar store in an 1918 Bank building. Here I have 25,000 books with over 18,000 in the data base. Visit Seller's Storefront. Call or e-mail to reserve a book.

Marshall Sprague (March 14, 1909–September 9, 1994) was an American journalist in New York, Paris, and China and . Another of his books of western history was So Vast So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase about the Louisiana Purchase.

Marshall Sprague (March 14, 1909–September 9, 1994) was an American journalist in New York, Paris, and China and author of books about western United States History. Another of his books of western history was So Vast So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase about the Louisiana Purchase Personal life.