Interim appointment : W.C.C. Claiborne letter book, 1804-1805
"The era of the Louisiana Purchase represents one of the foundation epics in America's nineteenth century and links the South with the subsequent history of the western frontier. William C.C. Claiborne, the first governor of Orleans Territory, was at the hub of officials who grappled with the political, diplomacy and administrative challenges that arose following the Purchase. Letters both to and from Claiborne during the critical months of 1804-1805, mysteriously excluded in 1917 from Dunbar Rowland's Official Letter Books of W.C.C. Claiborne, 1801-1816, are now made widely accessible, over half of them published here for the first time."
Print Book, English, ©2002
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2002