The beginner's American history . of California had not given him money to live on. Marshall was still more to be pitied. He got nothingby his discovery. Years after he had found the shiningdust, some one wrote to him and asked him for his photo-graph. He refused to send it. He said, * My is, in fact, all I have that I can call my own ; andI feel like any other poor wretch: ^ I want something forself. 240. How we bought more land ; our growth since the Revo-lution.— Long before Captain Sutter died, the United Statesbought from Mexico another great piece of land (1853),marked on the
The beginner's American history . of California had not given him money to live on. Marshall was still more to be pitied. He got nothingby his discovery. Years after he had found the shiningdust, some one wrote to him and asked him for his photo-graph. He refused to send it. He said, * My is, in fact, all I have that I can call my own ; andI feel like any other poor wretch: ^ I want something forself. 240. How we bought more land ; our growth since the Revo-lution.— Long before Captain Sutter died, the United Statesbought from Mexico another great piece of land (1853),marked on the map by the name of the Gadsden Purchase.^ 1 Wretch : here a very unhappy and miserable person. 2 See maps on pages 195 and 196. It was called the Gadsden Purchase, becauseGeneral James Gadsden of South Carolina bought it from Mexico for the UnitedStates, in 1853. It included what is now part of Southern Arizona and N. Mexico. CAPTAIN SUTTER. 195 A number of years later (1867) we bought the territory ofAlaska ^ from Russia. •. • -t This map shows the extent of the United States in 1853 after we had added the land calledthe Gadsden Purchase, bought from Mexico; the land is marked on the map, 1853. The Revolution ended something over a hundred yearsago ; if you look on the map on page 147, and compareit with the maps which follow, you will see how we havegrown during that time. Then we had just thirteen states ^which stretched along the shore of the Atlantic, and whichextended west as far as the Mississippi River. Next (1803) we bought the great territory of Louisiana(see map on page 148), which has since been divided intomany states; then (1819) we bought Florida (see map onpage 173) ; then (1845) we added Texas (see map on page185); the next year (1846) we added Oregon territory,since cut up into two great states (see map on page 188) ;then (1848) we obtained California and New Mexico (seemap on page 193). Five years after that (1853) we bought 1 Alaska: see map facing pa
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