50 Things You Didn't Know About The Old West

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Chapter 1 WESTWARD EXPANSION When President Thomas Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 the United States doubled in size American territory now spread all the way to the Pacific Ocean Most of it was a vast wilderness never seen by Europeans although it was already inhabited by many thousands of Native peoples President Jefferson quickly put together an exploration group led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the new lands and the expansion in the American West began 4