. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . ? Who discovered itsmouth? What settlements were made in the lowerMississippi valley? What right had France to claimthe lands now included in Oklahoma? Written Wark. Write an article setting forth thereasons the Indians were usually friendly to the French. AMERICAN PJXPLORATIONS 13 Write on this subject, The French along the on, The Jesuits. Readings. EvangeUne, by Longfellow. His-toric Towns of the Southern States (Mobile and NewOrleans), by Lyman Powell. ^ History of Louisiana,by Albert Phelps. LESSON 3 AMERICAN EXPLORATION
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . ? Who discovered itsmouth? What settlements were made in the lowerMississippi valley? What right had France to claimthe lands now included in Oklahoma? Written Wark. Write an article setting forth thereasons the Indians were usually friendly to the French. AMERICAN PJXPLORATIONS 13 Write on this subject, The French along the on, The Jesuits. Readings. EvangeUne, by Longfellow. His-toric Towns of the Southern States (Mobile and NewOrleans), by Lyman Powell. ^ History of Louisiana,by Albert Phelps. LESSON 3 AMERICAN EXPLORATIONS Soon after the United States obtained posses-sion of Louisiana^ expeditions were sent out toexplore the new additionto our territory. Lewisand Clark left St. Louis in1804, ascended the Mis-souri River, and reachedthe Pacific Coast by wayof the Columbia River. Zebulon M. Pike startedfrom St. Louis (LS06),crossed what is now Mis-souri and Kansas and east-ern Colorado, and discovered the peak that bearshis name. Then, while attempting to discover the. Lieut. Zebulon Mont-gomery Pike 14 OKLAHOMA HISTORY source of the Red River, he pushed on to the RioGrande, where he was taken prisoner by the Span-ish and sent back to the United States by way ofNew Orleans. Lieutenant James Wilkinson, a member ofPikes expedition, was permitted to return onaccount of illness. When this expedition reachedthe Arkansas River near the present site of GreatBend, Kansas, Wilkinson descended that river,passing through what is now Oklahoma (1806).This was undoubtedly the first American explor-ing party to pass through lands now included inOklahoma. Then George C. Sibley, a United States Indianagent, made a trip to the salt plains in the regionof the Cimarron and the Salt Fork of the Arkansas(1811). Fort Smith, Arkansas, was establishedon the Arkansas River at the mouth of the Poteau,near the eastern boundary of Oklahoma, by MajorStephen H. Long (1817). A trading post was setup at the mouth of the Verdigri
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