UNDER THE RULE OF

SPAIN, FRANCE, AND THE UNITED STATES

1785-1807

Social, Economic, and Political Conditions
of the Territory represented in the
Louisiana Purchase

as portrayed in hitherto unpublished contemporary accounts
by DR. PAUL ALLIOT and various Spanish, French,
English, and American Officials

Translated or transcribed from the original manuscripts, edited,
annotated, and with bibliography and index by
JAMES ALEXANDER ROBERTSON

With special map of the Territory and
other early maps and plans

VOLUME I

THE

CLEVELAND, OHIO

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

1911

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
JAMES A. ROBERTSON

THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS

IOWA

ΤΟ

MY SISTER ELIZABETH