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Wilder, Annals of Kansas, pp. 15-18.
QUESTIONS
1. Who were the Jesuits? What can you say of Marquette? Joliet? La Salle?
2. Contrast the motives of the French and Spanish in coming to America.
3. Why did the English come to the New World?
4. What territory was claimed by the French? By the Spanish? By the English?
5. To what nations did what is now Kansas successively belong? How and when did it first become a part of the United States? How long was this after the discovery of America?
CHAPTER III
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EXPLORATION OF THE KANSAS COUNTRY BY THE UNITED STATES
President Jefferson Sent Explorers.
Lewis and Clark.
The Journey.
Pike’s Expedition.
Pike Visits the Osage Indians.
Pike Among the Pawnees.
Pike in Colorado.
The Expedition of Pike, and the Location of the Original Indian Tribes.
There were no clearly defined boundaries between the tribes.
The Return of Pike.
“From these immense prairies may rise one great advantage to the United States, viz., the restriction of our population to certain limits, and thereby a continuation of the union. Our citizens, being so prone to rambling and extending themselves on the frontiers, will, through necessity, be constrained to limit their extent on the west to the borders of the Missouri and the Mississippi, while they leave the prairies, incapable of cultivation, to the wandering aborigines of the country.”[3]