Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ne-third the present a-eaof the United Slates—lying between the Mississippi River and theRocky Mountains, and which includes, in whole or in part, 14 statesand territories, as follows: Missouri. Oklahoma. Minnesota, Wyo-ming, Indian Territory. .Vrkansas, South Dakota, Nebraska, Lou-isiana, Montana. Iowa. Kansas, Colorado, and North Dakota. constant friction with the Spanish settlements and hostile Tn-liansalong their western border, and on several occasions open warfarewas avoided only by the diplomacy of President Washington andPresident .-\dams. In ifoi the western people were again intenselyexcited by rumors to the effect that Spain had secretly ceded Lou-isiana to France and Ihat Napoleon, then first consul of the FrenchRepublic, was about to take military possession of the land. Presi-dent Jefferson appreciated that the time for action had come, andat once opened negotiations with Napoleon for a peaceful acquisitionof the Louisiana tract. These negotiations were consunnnated on
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