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Louisiana Purchase Bibliography
This bibliography includes volumes and journal articles available in the State Historical Society of Missouri reference collection. Call numbers are in brackets following each entry. Because the reference collection is non-circulating, these items are not available on interlibrary loan. They can be used in the reference library reading room.
General Histories |
Juvenile Literature |
Louisiana Territory History |
Spanish Louisiana Territory History |
French Louisiana Territory History |
Individuals |
General Histories
Anderson, John Jacob. Did the Louisiana Purchase extend to the Pacific Ocean? And our title to Oregon. San Francisco, CA: Bacon & Co. , 1880.[F516. 31 / An23]
Baker, Vaughan Burdin, ed. Visions and Revisions: Perspectives on Louisiana Society and Culture. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana, 2000.[976. 3 / L933 V. 15]
Barbé-Marbois, François, marquis de. Histoire de la Louisiane et de la cession de cette colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis de l’Amerique septentrionale; précédée d’un discours sur la constitution et la gouvernement des Etats-Unus. Paris, France: Impr. De Firmin Didot, 1829. [F516. 2 / B232h]
Barbé-Marbois, François, marquis de. The History of Louisiana, particularly of the cession of that colony to the United States of America; with an introductory essay on the Constitution and Government of the United States. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1830. [F516. 2 / B232hzE]
Barry, William Taylor. “Letters of William T. Barry.” William and Mary College Quarterly 13 (January 1905): 107-116. [975. 5 / W67 / V. 13]
Bates, George William. The establishment of American Independence as related to the Louisiana Purchase, with a review of the Historical work of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution. N. p. , [1905?]. [F516. 31 /B318]
Blanchard, Rufus. Documentary History of the cession of Louisiana to the United States till it became an American province; with an appendix. Chicago: by author, 1903.[F516. 31 / B592]
Brackenridge, Henry Marie. Views of Louisiana: Together with a journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1962. [F515 / B725 / 1962]
Brackenridge, Henry Marie. Views of Louisiana: Together with a journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811. Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814.[F515 / B725 / in case]
Brasseaux, Carl A. , ed. A Refuge for all Ages: Immigration in Louisiana History. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1996.[976. 3 / L933 / V. 10]
Broadhead, James Overton. “The Louisiana Purchase: Extant of Territory acquired by said purchase.” Missouri Historical Society Collections 1, no. 13, 1897.[F550 / M69 / V. 1 / No. 13 / in case]
Brown, Everett S. The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1920. [F516. 31 / B812]
Brown, Everett S. “The Senate Debate on the Breckinridge Bill for the Government of Louisiana, 1804.” American Historical Review 22 (January 1917): 340-364. [F516. 2 / B81]
Calloway, Colin G. One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. [970. 1 / C135on]
Campbell, William Lee. “The Condition of Missouri at the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1804.” Annals of Kansas City, Missouri 1 (October 1921): 104-109.[F550 / M692 / V. 1]
Chase, John Churchill. Louisiana Purchase: an American Story told in that most American offal forms of expression, the comic strip. New Orleans: Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial Commission, 1954. [F516. 31 / C387l]
Claiborne, William Charles Cole. Official letter books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801-1816. 6 vols. Jackson, MS: State Department of Archives and History, 1917.[F516. 31 / C521]
Cole, Harry W. When Jefferson Bought Louisiana. Caruthersville, MO: by author, n. d.[I / C674]
Conrad, Glenn R. The French Experience in Louisiana. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995. [976. 3 / L933 / V. 1]
Cooley, Thomas McIntyre. “The Acquisition of Louisiana.” Indiana Historical Society Publications 2, no. 3, 1887. [977. 2 / In2p / V. 2 ]
Cox, I. J. “The Early Exploration of Louisiana.” University Studies, ser. 2, vol. 2(January-February 1906). Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati. [378. 7C491 / J / Ser. 2 / V. 2]
Dargo, George. “Jefferson’s Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions.” Studies in Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. [F516. 4 / D248]
Davis, Samuel McClellan. “The Dual Origin of Minnesota.” Minnesota Historical Society Collections 9 (1901): 519-548. [977. 6 / M66c / V. 9]
Dean, Henry Clay. “The Philosophy of the History of the Louisiana Purchase.” Annals of Iowa 12 (July 1874): 161-190. [977. 7 / An7 / V. 12]
De Conde, Alexander. This Affair of Louisiana. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976.[F516. 31 / D358]
De Voto, Bernard Augustine. Celebrating 150 years of the Louisiana Purchase. New York: Collier Publishing Co. , 1953. [F516. 31 / D499c]
Din, Gilbert C. The Spanish Presence in Louisiana, 1763-1803. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1996.[976. 3 / L933 / V. 2]
Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana . I. “The Limits and Bounds of Louisiana.” By Thomas Jefferson. II. “The Exploration of the Red, Black, and the Washita Rivers.” By William Dunbar. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904. [F516. 31 / D659]
Fac-simile Reproduction of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. From the original on file among the State papers at Washington D. C. Treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic…Done at Paris the tenth day of Floreal in the eleventh year of the French Republic; and the 30th of April 1803. [F516. 31 / F119 / oversize]
Feldman, Lawrence H. Anglo-Americans in Spanish Archives: lists of Anglo-American Settlers in the Spanish Colonies of America: a finding aid. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. , 1991. [F516. 3 / F333]
Greenhow, Robert. Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America, and the Adjacent Territories: Illustrated by a Map and Geographical view of those Countries. Washington D. C. : Blair and Rives, 1840. [Bay Collection]
Guinness, Ralph B. “The purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 20 (June 1933): 90-100. [917. 8 / G948]
Hibbert, Wilfrid. “Major Amos Stoddard, First Governor of Upper Louisiana and hero of Fort Meigs.” Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio Bulletin 2 (April 1930). [F508. 1 / St63h]
Hitchcock, Ripley. The Louisiana Purchase and the Exploration, Early History and Building of the West. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903. [F516. 31 / H635]
Hobby, C. M. “The Louisiana Purchase.” Iowa Historical Lectures: Delivered before the State Historical Society, Iowa City, 1892. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1893. [1977. 7 / Io9h]
Holtman, Robert B. French Louisiana: a Commemoration of the French Revolution Bicentennial. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1989. [976. 3 / H744]
Hosmer, James Kendall. The History of the Louisiana Purchase. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. [F516 / H794]
Houck, Louis. The Boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase: a Historical Study. St. Louis: P. Roeder’s book store, 1901. [F516. 31 / H812]
Howard, Azel B. The Louisiana Purchase, its History, Acquisition Negotiations, Treaty, Congressional Acceptance, Possession, Cost, Area, Explorations, Texas Re-Annexation, etc. With Review of National and Public Domain Acquired by Purchase and Treaties – Period, Price and Quantity. St. Louis: by author, 1901. [F516. 31 / H831l]
Howard, James Quay. History of the Louisiana Purchase. Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1902. [F516. 31 / H834]
Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration: the Freeman & Curtis accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. [976. 36 / J356]
Jones, Breckinridge . The Commercial Development of the Louisiana Purchase. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1899. [F516. 4 / J711]
Kastor, Peter J. The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. [F516.4 K155]
Keats, John. Eminent Domain: The Louisiana Purchase and the making of America. New York: Charterhouse, 1973. [973. 46 / K226]
Knudson, Jerry W. “Newspaper Reaction to the Louisiana Purchase: ‘This New, Immense, Unbounded World. ’” Missouri Historical Review 63 (January 1969): 182-213.
Kukla, Jon. A Wilderness so Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. New York: Random House, 2003. [ F516 K958]
La Force, Alice Furtney, ed. “The Missouri Reader: The Louisiana Purchase.” Missouri Historical Review 42 (October 1947): 50-71; (January 1948): 153-172.
Labbé, Dolores Egger, ed. The Louisiana Purchase and its Aftermath, 1800-1830. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998.[976. 3 / L933 / V. 3]
Langford, Nathaniel Pitt. “The Louisiana Purchase and the Preceding Spanish Intrigues for Dismemberment of the Union.” Minnesota Historical Society Collections 9 (1901): 453-508 [977. 6 / M66c / V. 9]
Laussat, Pedro Clement. “Proclamation of the delivery of the province of Louisiana to the United States, Dec. 20, 1803.” Translated. Missouri Historical Society Collections 2 (January 1900): 57-59. [F550 / M69 / V. 2]
Lyon, Elijah Wilson. Louisiana in French Diplomacy, 1759-1804. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934. [F516. 2 / L994l]
Lyon, Elijah Wilson. The Man who Sold Louisiana: The Career of François Barbé-Marbois. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942.[F516. 31 / L995]
Marshall, Thomas Maitland. A History of the Western Boundary of the Louisiana Purchase,1819-1841. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1914.[F516. 31 / M358] or [378. 7C128 / J / V. 2]
Mercantile Library Association. 1. Missouri and Illinois newspapers, 1808-1897,chronologically arranged. 2. Manuscripts Relating to Louisiana Territory and Missouri. St. Louis: Mercantile Library Association, 1898. [H235. 58 / Sa24mm]
Nutter, Charles. America’s Best Buy. New Orleans, LA: Progressive Bank and Trust Co. , 1952 [F516. 31 / N964a].
Nutter, Charles. “His Bold Decision gave us an Empire at Four Cents an Acre.” Kansas City Star, 1 March 1953. [VF-Louisiana Purchase]
Nutter, Charles. Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans, LA: Progressive Bank and Trust Co. , 1952 [F516. 31 / N964L].
Peattie, Donald Culross. We Bought an Empire for Four Cents an Acre. Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest, 1953. [F516. 31 / P329w]
Pichardo, José Antonia. Pichardo’s Treatise on the Limits of Louisiana and Texas, an Argumentative Historical Treatise with Reference to the Verification of the True Limits of the Provinces of Louisiana and Texas; written by Father José Antonia Pichardo, of the Congregation of the Oratory of San Felipe Neri, to Disprove the Claim of the United States that Texas was included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. 4 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1931-1946. [976. 3 / P582]
Rader, Jesse Lee. South of Forty, from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande, a bibliography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. [016. 976 / R117]
Randall, Emilius Oviatt. “The Louisiana Purchase.” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 13 (April 1904): 248-262. [977. 1 / Oh35 / V. 13]
Robertson, Charles Franklin. “The Attempts Made to Separate the West from the American Union.” Missouri Historical Society Collections 1, no. 10. , 1885. [F550 / M69 / V. 1 / In Case]
Robertson, Charles Franklin. “The Louisiana Purchase in its Influence Upon the American System.” Papers of the American Historical Association 1 (1885): 5-42.[973. 06 / Am31p / V.1]
Robertson, James Alexander . Louisiana 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. 2 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1911. [F516 / R547]
Rodriguez, Junius P. , editor. The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia.Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.[F516. 31 / R618]
St. Louis. City Art Museum. Westward the Way: the Character and Development of the Louisiana Territory, as seen by the Artists and Writers of the Nineteenth Century. St. Louis: City Art Museum, 1954. [H235. 16 / Sa24we]
Schafer, Judith Kelleher, and Warren M. Billings, eds. An Uncommon Experience: Law and Judicial Institutions in Louisiana, 1803-2003. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1997. [976. 3 / L933 / V. 13]
Shoemaker, Floyd C. “The Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and the Transfer of Upper Louisiana to the United States, 1804.” Missouri Historical Review 48 (October 1953): 1-22.
Sloane, William Milligan. “The World Aspects of the Louisiana Purchase.” American Historical Review 9 (April 1903): 507-521. [F516. 31 / Sl52]
Smith, Walter Robinson. Brief History of the Louisiana Territory. St. Louis: St. Louis News Company, 1904. [F516 / Sm68]
Sprague, Marshall. So Vast, so Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. [973. 46 / Sp73]
Stoddard, Amos. Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1812. [F516 / St63 / in case]
Tallant, Robert . The Louisiana Purchase. New York: Random House, 1952.[F516. 31 / T144l]
[Tucker, St. George] Sylvestris. Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana to the United States. Washington City: S. H. Smith, 1803. [F516. 31 / Sy57]
U. S. Department of State. State Papers and Correspondence Bearing Upon the Purchase of the Territory of Louisiana. Washington D. C. : Government Printing Office, 1903. [F516. 31 / Un32]
U. S. General Land Office. Historical Sketch of “Louisiana” and the Louisiana Purchase, with Illustrative Maps Reproduced from the Exhibit of the General Land Office, Department of the Interior, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. St. Louis: 1904. [F516. 31 / Un3hl]
U. S. General Land Office. Historical Sketch of “Louisiana” and the Louisiana Purchase, by Frank Bond, Chief Clerk General Land Office, with a Statement of other Acquisitions. Washington D. C. : Government Printing Office, 1912. [F516. 31 / Un3h]
U. S. General Land Office. The Louisiana Purchase: an Historical Sketch from the Files of the General Land Office Reprinted in Commemoration of the One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, by Frank Bond. Washington D. C. : Government Printing Office, 1952. [F516. 31 / Un3h2]
U. S. General Land Office. The Louisiana Purchase, and Our Title West of the Rocky Mountains, with a Review of Annexation by the United States. By Binger Hermann, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Washington D. C. : Government Printing Office, 1898.[F516. 31 / H426 / 1900]
U. S. National Archives and Records Service. Territorial Papers of the United States: Territory of Louisiana-Missouri, 1803-1821. Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter. Washington D. C. : National Archives and Records Service, 1968. [Micro / F512 / L935tp]
U. S. President, 1801-1809, Thomas Jefferson. An Account of Louisiana, being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. Washington D. C. , 1803. [F515 / Un3 / in case]
Vincent, Charles, ed. The African American Experience in Louisiana, Part A: From Africa to the Civil War. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1999-2000. [976. 3 / L933 / V. 11]
Weinman, Rudolph J. “The Louisiana Purchase: a Constitutional Re-appraisal.” Louisiana Bar Journal 1 (October 1953): 79-92. [973. 46 / W432l]
Welborn, C. A. The Red River Controversy: the Western Boundary of the Louisiana Purchase. N. p. , Nortex Offset Publications, 1973. [976. 4 / W441]
Wood, W. Raymond. Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and Evans Expedition.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.[F516. 1 W85]
Louisiana Purchase – Juvenile Literature
Barry, James P. The Louisiana Purchase, April 30, 1803: Thomas Jefferson doubles the area of the United States. New York: F. Watts, 1973. [IJ / B279]
Chidsey, Donald Barr. Louisiana Purchase. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. [IJ / C434]
Phelan, Mary Kay. The Story of the Louisiana Purchase. New York: Crowell, 1979. [IJ / P51]
Winship, Albert Edward, and Robert W. Wallace. The Louisiana Purchase as it was and as it is. Chicago: A. Flanagan Company, 1903. [IJ / W732l]
Wolfe, Louis. Let’s go to the Louisiana Purchase. New York: Putnam, 1963. [IJ / W832]
Louisiana Territory History
Austin, Moses. “A Memorandum of M. Austin’s Journey from the Lead Mines in the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia to the Lead Mines in the Province of Louisiana West of the Mississippi, 1796-1797.” American Historical Review 5 (April 1900): 518-542. [F516.1 / Au77]
Barry, Louise. The Beginning of the West: Annals of the Kansas Gateway to the American West, 1540-1854. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1972. [978.1 / B729]
Bedini, Silvio A. Jefferson and Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., 2002. [921 / J359be2]
Billon, Frederic L. Annals of St. Louis in its Early Days under the French and Spanish Dominations, 1764-1804. New York: Arno Press and New York Times, 1886 and 1971. [H235.47 / B497a]
Carlson, Laurie Winn. Seduced by the West: Jefferson's American and the Lure of the Land Beyond the Mississippi. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. [917.8 / C1973]
Chambers, Henry Edward. A History of Louisiana, Wilderness, Colony, Province, Territory, State, People. 3 vols. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1925. [976.3 / C355]
Cox, Isaac Joslin. “The Exploration of the Louisiana Frontier, 1803-1806.” 1904 Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 149-174. Washington D.C.: American Historical Association, 1905. [973.06 / Am31 / 1904]
Dargo, George. Jefferson’s Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. [F516.4 / D248]
Dart, Henry Plauchè. “The Legal Institutions of Louisiana.” Southern Law Quarterly 3 (November 1918): 246-280. [976.3 / D255]
Delanglez, Jean. Hennepin’s Description of Louisiana, a Critical Essay. Chicago: Institute of Jesuit History, 1941. [F516.1 / H392d]
Dufour, Charles L. Ten Flags in the Wind: The Story of Louisiana. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. [976.3 / D875]
Eddleman, Sherida K. Missouri Genealogical Records and Abstracts. (Vol. 1-1766-1839; Vol. 2-1752-1839). Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1990. [F508.3 / M691ed]
Falconer, Thomas. On the Discovery of the Mississippi, and on the Southwestern, Oregon, and Northwestern Boundary of the United States. With a Translation from the original ms. of Memoirs, etc., relating to the Discovery of the Mississippi, by Robert Cavelier de La Salle and the Chevalier Henry de Tonty. London: S. Clarke, 1844. [Micro / 977 / F182]
Finiels, Nicolas de. An Account of the Upper Louisiana. Edited by Carl J. Ekberg and William E. Foley, translated by Carl J. Ekberg. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. [F516 / F495]
Fitzpatrick, John. The Merchant of Manchac, The Letterbooks of John Fitzpatrick, 1768-1790. Baton Rouge: Published for the Baton Rouge Bicentennial Corporation by the Louisiana State University Press, 1978. [976.3 / F582]
Flint, Timothy. A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States. Cincinnati, OH: Published for E. H. Flint by W. M. and O. Farnsworth, 1828. [Bay Collection]
Foley, William E. “The American Territorial System: Missouri’s Experience.” Missouri Historical Review 65 (July 1971): 403-426.
Foley, William E. The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. [F550 / H699]
Foley, William E . A History of Missouri, 1673-1820. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1971. [F550 / H629]
Historical Records Survey. Missouri. Early History of Missouri. Prepared by the Missouri Historical Records Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Records Survey, 1941. [F516 / H629e]
Houck, Louis. History of Missouri From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union. 3 vols. Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1908. [F550 / H812]
Janin, Hunt. Claiming the American Wilderness: International Rivalry in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1528-1803. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006. [917.8 J255]
King, Grace, and John R. Ficklen. A History of Louisiana. New Orleans: L. Graham Co., 1902. [976.3 / K582]
Klein, Ada Paris, ed. “The Missouri Reader: Ownership of the Land Under France, Spain and the United States.” Missouri Historical Review 44 (April 1950): 274-294.
Laussat, Pierre Clément de. Memoirs of My Life. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. [F516.31 / L376 / 2003]
Loeb, Isidor. “The Beginnings of Missouri Legislation.” Missouri Historical Review 92 (April 1998): 222-237.
Missouri Historical Review 70 (July 1976): 379-392. (Section dealing with artwork concerning the area of the Louisiana Territory and the Louisiana Purchase).
“The Missouri Reader: Americans in the Valley.” Missouri Historical Review 45-48 (October 1950-January 1954).
Nasatir, A. P. Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. [F581 / N17b / 1990]
Nasatir, Abraham Phineas, ed. “John Evans, Explorer and Surveyor.” Missouri Historical Review 25 (January 1931): 219-239; (April 1931): 432-460; (July 1931): 585-608.
Pitot, James. Observations on the Colony of Louisiana from 1796 to 1802. Baton Rouge: Published for the Historic New Orleans Collection by Louisiana State University Press, 1979. [976.3 / P683]
Rand, Clayton. Stars in their Eyes: Dreamers & Builders in Louisiana. Portraits by Constance Joan Naar and Harry Coughlin. Gulfport, MS: Dixie Press, 1953. [976.3 / R152s]
Schaffer, David. The Louisiana Purchase: The Deal of the Century That Doubled the Nation. Berkley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2006. [F516.31 Sch 14]
Shoemaker, Floyd C. “A Sketch of Missouri Constitutional History During the Territorial Period.” Missouri Historical Review 9 (October 1914): 1-32.
Stenberg, Richard. “The Western Boundary of Louisiana, 1762-1803.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 35 (October 1931): 95-108. [F516 / St42]
Talbott, Wallace T. The Osages: Dominant Power of Louisiana Territory. New York: Carlton Press, 1989. [F580.3 / T142]
Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846. 32 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1907. [917.8 / T428e]
Wood, W. Raymond. “John Thomas Evans: An Overlooked Precursor to Lewis and Clark.” North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains, vol. 68, no. 2 (2001): 27-37. [978.4 / N811 / V. 68]
Spanish Louisiana Territory History
Carondelet, Villa de. “Letter of Instructions. Baron Carondelet, Governor of the Province of Louisiana, to Lieutenant-Colonel Don Carlos Howard. General Archives of Indies. Seville. Papers coming from the Island of Cuba. Louisiana. Correspondence of Governors.” Missouri Historical Society Collections 3 (January 1908): 71-91. [F550 / M69 / V. 3 / In Case]
Carter, Hodding. Doomed Road of Empire: The Spanish Trail of Conquest. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. [976.4 / C245]
DeBow, J. D. B. “Spanish Domination in Louisiana.” De Bow’s Review 7 (December 1854): 545-568. [F516.3 / Sp24]
Din, Gilbert C. “Captain Francisco Ríu y Morales and the Beginnings of Spanish Rule in Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review 94 (January 2000): 121-145.
Din, Gilbert C., ed. The Spanish Presence in Louisiana, 1763-1803. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1996. [976.3 / L933 / V. 2]
Douglas, Walter Bond. “Spanish Domination of Upper Louisiana.” Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1913, 74-90. [F516 / D747]
Espinosa, J. Manuel. “Spanish Louisiana and the West: The Economic Significance of the Ste. Genevieve District.” Missouri Historical Review 32 (April 1938): 287-297.
Houck, Louis. The Spanish Regime in Missouri. Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1909. [F516.3 / H812]
“Instructions, D’Ulloa to Rui, 1767. General Archives of Indies. Seville. Papers coming from the Island of Cuba. Louisiana. Correspondence of Governors.” Missouri Historical Society Collections 3 (April 1908): 145-169. [F550 / M69 / V. 3 / In Case]
Liljegren, Ernest J. “Frontier Education in Spanish Louisiana.” Missouri Historical Review 35 (April 1941): 345-372.
Richardson, Lemont K. “Private Land Claims in Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review 50 (January 1956): 132-144.
Shepherd, William Robert. “Papers Bearing on James Wilkinson’s Relations with Spain, 1787-1789.” American Historical Review 9 (July 1904): 748-766. [F516.3 / Sh48p] or [973.05 / Am35 / V.9]
Shepherd, William Robert. “Wilkinson and the Beginnings of the Spanish Conspiracy.” American Historical Review 9 (April 1904): 490-506. [F516.3 / Sh48w]
French Louisiana Territory History
Berquin-Duvallon. Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the Year, 1802, giving a correct picture of those countries. Translated from the French, with notes and comments by John Davis. New York: I. Riley and Co., 1806. [Bay Collection]
Berquin-Duvallon. Vue de la colonie espangnole du Mississippi, ou des provinces de Louisiana et Floride Occidentale; en l’année 1802, par un observateur resident sur les lieux. Paris: Imprimerie expéditive; an xi, 1803. [Micro / 976.3 / B458] or [Bay Collection]
Bossu, Jean Bernard. Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentals, contenant une relation des différens peoples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appellé vulgairement le Mississippi; leur religion; leur gouvernement; leurs moeurs, les guerres, and leur commerce. Amsterdam: D. J. Changuion, 1769. [Bay Collection]
Bossu, Jean Bernard. Nouveaux voyages dans l’Amérique Septentrionale, contenant une collection de lettrest écrites sur les lieux, par l’auteur; à son ami, m. Douin ci-devant son camarade dans le Nouveau monde. Amsterdam: D. J. Changuion, 1777. [Bay Collection]
Bossu, Jean Bernard. Travels in the Interior of North America, 1751-1762. Translated and edited by Seymour Feiler. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. [F515 / B655 / 1962]
Bossu, Jean Bernard. Travels through the part of North America formerly called Louisiana. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster. Illustrated with notes relative chiefly to Natural History. To which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North America, or, A flora Americae Septentrionalis. Together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling’s Travels through Spain and Cumana in South America. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1771. [F515 / B655 / In Case]
Brasseaux, Carl A., ed. A Comparative View of French Louisiana, 1699 and 1762: The Journals of Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and Jean-Jacques-Blaise d’Abbadie. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1979. [976.3 / L544]
Conrad, Glenn R., ed. The French Experience in Louisiana. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1995. [976.3 / L933 / V. 1]
Conrad, Glenn R., and Carl A. Brasseaux. A Selected Bibliography of Scholarly Literature on Colonial Louisiana and New France. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1982. [F516 / C763]
De la Harpe, Jean-Baptiste Bénard. Historical Journal of the Settlement of the French in Louisiana. Edited and annotated by Glenn R. Conrad. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1971. [976.3 / L138]
Giraud, Marcel. A History of French Louisiana. Vol. I: The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698-1715; Vol. II: Years of Transition, 1715-1717; Vol. 5: The Company of the Indies, 1723-1731. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. [976.3 / G442h / 1974]
Giraud, Marcel. Histoire de la Louisiane Française, Tome Premier: Le Règne de Louis XIV, 1698-1715. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1953. [976.3 / G442h / Vol. 1]
Giraud, Marcel. Histoire de la Louisiane Française, Tome Second: Années de Transition, 1715-1717. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1958. [976.3 / G442h / Vol. 2]
Giraud, Marcel. Histoire de la Louisiane Française, Tome III: L’époque de John Law, 1717-1720. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966. [976.3 / G442h / Vol. 3]
Hennepin, Louis. A Description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, Recollect Missionary. Translated from the Edition of 1683, and compared with the Nouvelle découverte, the La Salle documents and contemporaneous papers. By John Gilmary Shea. New York: J. G. Shea, 1880. [F516.1 / H392 / In Case]
Hennepin, Louis. Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud’ oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy. Avec la carte du pays: Les moeurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages. Dedie’e a Sa Majeste’ par le r. p. Loüis Hennepin, missionnaire Recollet & notaire apostolique. Paris: A. Auroy, 1688. [Bay Collection]
Hennepin, Louis. Father Louis Hennepin’s Description of Louisiana, newly discovered to the Southwest of New France by order of the King; translated from the original edition by Marion E. Cross, with an introduction by Grace Lee Nute. Minneapolis: Published for the Minnesota Society of the Colonial Dames of America, The University of Minnesota Press, 1938. [F515 / C884]
Holtman, Robert B., and Glenn R. Conrad, eds. French Louisiana: a Commemoration of the French Revolution Bicentennial. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1989. [976.3 / H744]
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791. 73 vols. Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Company, 1901. [973.2 / J499]
Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon . Histoire de la Louisiane. Contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays; sa description géographique; un voyage dans led terres; l’historie naturelle, les moeurs, coûtumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origins; deux voyages dans le nord du nouveau Mexique, don’t un jusqu’à la Mer du Sud; ornée de deux cartes & de 40 planches en taille douce. Paris: De Bure, l’aîné, 1758. [F516.1 / L556 / In Case]
Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon. The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, containing a Description of the Countries that lie on both sides of the River Mississippi, with an account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products. Translated from the French of Le Page du Pratz; with some notes and observations relating to our Colonies. London: T. Becket, 1774. New Orleans: J. S. Harmanson, 1947. [F516.1 / L556e]
Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon. The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, containing a Description of the Countries that lie on both sides of the River Mississippi, with an account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products. Translated from the French of Le Page du Pratz; with some notes and observations relating to our Colonies. London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763. [F516.1 / L556h / In Case]
Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon. The History of Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Published for the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial Commission by the Louisiana State University Press, 1975. [976.3 / L556]
Maduell, Charles R. The Census Table for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 through 1732. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1972. [929.3 / L93m]
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1701-1743. French Dominion, Collected, Edited, and Translated by Dunbar Rowland and A. G. Sanders. Jackson: Press of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1927-1932. [976.2 / M69mi / 3 Volumes]
“The Missouri Reader: The French in the Valley.” Missouri Historical Review 40-41 (October 1945-July 1947).
O’Neill, Charles Edwards. Church and State in French Colonial Louisiana: Policy and Politics to 1732. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. [277.763 / On2]
Perrin du lac, Francois Marie. Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the Savage Nations of the Missouri; also, in the United States, along the Ohio, and the adjacent provinces, in 1801, 1802, and 1803. With a Sketch of the Manners, Customs, Character, and the Civil and Religious Ceremonies of the People of those Countries. Translated from the French. London: Printed for R. Phillips by J. G. Barnard, 1807. [F515 / P429 / In Case]
Perrin du lac, Francois Marie. Voyage dan les deux Louisianes, et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les états-Unis, l’Ohio et les provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803; avec un apercu des moeurs, des usages, du caractère et des cutumes religieuses et civiles des peoples de ces diverses contrées. Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1805. [Micro / 917.7 / P428] or [Bay Collection]
Surrey, Nancy Maria Miller. The Commerce of Louisiana during the French Régime, 1699-1763. New York: Columbia University Press, 1916. [F516.2 / Su78]
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Louisiana Purchase – Individuals Involved
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)
Adams, John. The Adams-Jefferson letters: the Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. 2 vols. Edited by Lester J. Cappon. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1959. [921 / Ad179a]
Adams, William Howard, ed. The Eye of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation; Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1976. [921 / J359a / 1993]
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. [917.3 / Aml8]
Betts, Edwin Morris, and James Adam Bear, Jr., eds. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1966. [921 / J359b]
Boyd, Julian P., ed. Thomas Jefferson Papers. 28 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950-. [973.46 / J359p]
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. Jefferson and Monroe: Constant Friendship and Respect. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., 2003. [973.46 / C917j]
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Process of Government Under Jefferson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. [973.46 / C917]
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: the Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. [973.46 / C917]
Dethloff, Henry C. Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1971. [973.46 / D481]
Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana. I. “The limits and bounds of Louisiana.” By Thomas Jefferson. II. “The Exploration of the Red, Black, and the Washita Rivers. ” By William Dunbar. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904. [F516.31 / D659]
Jefferson, Thomas. “A Bundle of Thomas Jefferson’s Letters, Now First Published.” (Letters to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, bearing dates from 1790 to 1828) Buffalo Historical Society Publications 7 (1904): 1-32. [974.797 / B863 / V. 7]
Jefferson, Thomas. Basic Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Garden City, NY: Halcyon House, 1944.
Jefferson, Thomas. Jefferson Himself: the Personal Narrative of a Many Sided American. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1942, 1970. [921 / J359ma]
Jefferson, Thomas. “The Jefferson Papers, 1770-1826.” Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, ser. 7, vol. 1. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1900. [974.4 / M382 / V. 61]
Jefferson, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. 20 vols. Washington D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, 1905. [973.46 / J359w]
Jenkinson, Clay S. Thomas Jefferson: The Private Man, The Public Figure. Reno, NV: Empire Catalog, 2001. [videocassette]
Johnstone, Robert M. Jefferson and the Presidency: Leadership in the Young Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978. [921 / J359jo]
Kaplan, Lawrence S . Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1999. [921 / J359ka]
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and his Time. 6 vols. (Vols. 4 and 5 deal with Jefferson as president) Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. [921 / J359m]
Mapp, Alf J. Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim: the Presidency, the Founding of the University, and the Private Battle. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991. [921 / J359map2]
McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1976. [973.46 / M145]
Miller, Charles A. Jefferson and Nature: an Interpretation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. [921 / J359mi]
Morris, Jeffrey Brandon. The Jefferson Way. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1994. [921 / J359mor]
Nock, Albert Jay. Jefferson. New York: Hill and Wang, 1956. [921 / J359n]
Owsley, Frank Lawrence. Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. [976 / Ow6]
Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. [921 / J359p2]
Peterson, Merrill D., ed. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1986. [921 / J359p3]
Ronda, James P., ed. Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West: from Conquest to Conservation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press; St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997. [973.46 / J359r]
Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1973. [970.5 / Sh35]
Sloan, Herbert E. Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [921 / J359sl]
Smith, Page. Jefferson: A Revealing Biography. New York: American Heritage, 1976. [921 / J359sm]
Tucker, Robert W. Empire of Liberty: the Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. [973.46 / T798]
Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. [970.5 / W155]
James Monroe (1758-1831)
Adams, John Quincy. The Lives of James Madison and James Monroe, Fourth and Fifth Presidents of the United States. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.; Buffalo, NY: G. H. Derby and Co., 1850. [920 / M265]
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Bond, Beverley Waugh. The Monroe Mission to France, 1794-1796. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1907. [378.7J62 / J / V. 25 / no. 2-3]
Cheney, John Vance, ed. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. 2 vols. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1906. [Bay Collection]
Cox, Isaac Joslin. “Monroe and the Early Mexican Revolutionary Agents.” 1911 Annual Report for the American Historical Association 1: 197-215. Washington D.C.: American Historical Association, 1913. [973.06 / Am31 / 1911 / V. 1]
Cunningham, Noble E. The Presidency of James Monroe. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. [973.54 / C917]
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. Jefferson and Monroe: Constant Friendship and Respect. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., 2003. [973.46 / C917j]
Gilman, Daniel Coit. James Monroe in his Relations to t he Public Service during Half a Century, 1776 to 1826. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883, 1885. [921 / M757]
Jewett, James C. “The United States Congress of 1817 and some of its Celebrities.” William and Mary College Quarterly 17 (October 1908): 139-144. [975.5 / W67 / V. 17]
Monroe, James. “Letters to and from Monroe.” William and Mary College Quarterly 1 (October 1892): 99-105. [975.5 / W67 / V. 1]
Monroe, James. “The Proclamation of Statehood. By the President: James Monroe.” Annals of Kansas City, Missouri 1 (October 1921): 1. [F550 / M692 / V. 1]
Owsley, Frank Lawrence. Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. [976 / Ow6]
Schouler, James. “The Authorship of the Monroe Doctrine.” 1905 Annual Report of the American Historical Association 1: 123-131. Washington D.C.: American Historical Association, 1906. [973.06 / Am31 / 1905 / V. 1]
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. “James Monroe.” William and Mary College Quarterly 4 (April 1896): 272-275. [975.5 / W67 / V. 4]
U.S. Library of Congress. Division of Manuscripts. Papers of James Monroe, listed in Chronological Order from the Original Manuscripts in the Library of Congress. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904. [973.54 / M757u]
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Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)
Delafield, Joseph Livingston. “Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York and his family.” Sixteenth Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, Appendix D, p. 311-356. Albany, NY: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 1911. [973.06 / Am36 / V. 16]
Nutter, Charles. “Robert R. Livingston, The Forgotten Architect of the Louisiana Purchase.” Missouri Historical Review 48 (January 1954): 117-133
François Barbé-Marbois (1745-1837)
Lyon, Elijah Wilson. The Man who sold Louisiana: The Career of François Barbé-Marbois. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942. [F516.31 / L995]
