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NASA Blue Marble Images are here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/   1814 map of the Missouri River and Columbia River Map of the Lewis & Clark Track, copied from the original drawing of Capt. Clark, in "History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis & Clark" edited by Nicholas Biddle; Bradford and Inskeep, Philadelphia, 1814. (courtesy of the American Philosophical Society www.amphilsoc.org) Louisiana Purchase 1803 LOUISIANA TERRITORY 1805 • ORLEANS TERR. 1805 The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon by the United States changed the course of world history and doubled the size of the United States. As the American flag was raised in St. Louis, Captains Lewis & Clark were preparing for the expedition. The Corps of Discovery explored the newly acquired Louisiana territory. A pressing object of the expedition was to bolster U.S. claims to the Columbia River. (Reprinted with permission of the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, from Arlene J. Large, "Louisiana's irrelevant flag: Lewis and Clark were going anyway," in We Proceeded On, May 1993, p. 16.) Mining & Superfund Clearcuts, Coeur d'Alene National Forest. photo © Trygve Steen Spokane Aquifer