Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park . f the United States ofAmerica, is responsible to the peoplethereof for their ownership of the YellowstonePark. During Mr. Jeffersons term of office, 1801 to1805, the Louisiana Purchase was negotiatedand concluded, and it should be rememberedthat, at that time, all that portion of theYellowstone Park north of the Lake was inLouisiana and belonged to France; south of theLake the territory belonged to Spain and was apart of Mexico. The Louisiana Purchase cost the UnitedStates SI5,000,000, and after
Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park . f the United States ofAmerica, is responsible to the peoplethereof for their ownership of the YellowstonePark. During Mr. Jeffersons term of office, 1801 to1805, the Louisiana Purchase was negotiatedand concluded, and it should be rememberedthat, at that time, all that portion of theYellowstone Park north of the Lake was inLouisiana and belonged to France; south of theLake the territory belonged to Spain and was apart of Mexico. The Louisiana Purchase cost the UnitedStates SI5,000,000, and after the Mexican warin 1847 Mexico was paid $15,000,000 for allher possessions north of the Rio Grande River, sowe may say that the Yellowstone Park cost theUnited States 130,000,000, with all the territoryfrom the Mississippi River to the Pacific thrownin for good measure. Napoleon of France did not know what hewas selling, and Mexico was not in a positionto dictate prices, and it seems that fifteen millionswere popular prices in those days to pay forempires. A single county of Texas or a parish 9. of Louisiana is worth more than fifteen miUions now, and Old Faithful alone would bring a large percentage of that price. Thus the territory inwhich the YellowstonePark is located came intothe possession of theUnited States partly in1803 under the adminis-tration of President Jeffer-son, and completely in1847 under President early as 1792 Jefferson hadformulated his plans for anexploration of a route to the , Pacific through the Northwest and was preparing to put them into execu-tion, but it was not till 1803 that Congress was induced to make themunificent appropriation of S2,500 for the expedition, and only after asecret message from President Jefferson, because the route of the explorerswould take them through territory of a foreign power (France). This was the origin of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that left St. LouisMay 14, 1804, and arrived at the mouth of the Yellowstone
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