6 Namely: California, Nevada, Utah, and part of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.
7 Wretch: here a very unhappy and miserable person.
[240. How we bought more land; our growth since the Revolution.]—Long before Captain Sutter died, the United States bought from Mexico another great piece of land (1853), marked on the map by the name of the Gadsden Purchase.[8] A number of years later (1867) we bought the territory of Alaska[9] from Russia.
| This map shows the extent of the United States in 1853 after we had added the land called the Gadsden Purchase, bought from Mexico; the land is marked on the map, 1853. |
The Revolution ended something over a hundred years ago; if you look on the map in paragraph [187], and compare it with the maps which follow, you will see how we have grown during that time. Then we had just thirteen states[10] which stretched along the Atlantic, and, with the country west of them, extended as far as the Mississippi River.
Next (1803) we bought the great territory of Louisiana (see map in paragraph [188]), which has since been divided into many states; then (1819) we bought Florida (see map in paragraph [218]); then (1845) we added Texas (see map in paragraph [230]); the next year (1846) we added Oregon territory, since cut up into two great states (see map in paragraph [235]); then (1848) we obtained California and New Mexico (see map in paragraph [239]). Five years after that (1853) we bought the land then known as the Gadsden Purchase (see first map in this paragraph); last of all (1867) we bought Alaska (see second map in this paragraph).
| This map shows the territorial growth of the United States from the time of the Revolution to the present day. |
| SCENE ON THE COAST OF ALASKA. |