Excerpt from The Louisiana Purchase and Our Title West of the Rocky Mountains: With a Review of Annexation by the United States Sir: Your letter Of the 7th instant has been received. You call attention therein to an error in the last map Of the United States published by the Depart ment (i 897) in so far as it represents the portion Of the country westward of the Rocky Mountains now embracing Oregon, Washington, Idaho and portions Of Montana and Wyoming to have been acquired by the United States by or through the Louisiana Purchase. You also submit in connection therewith a very 'care fully prepared paper upon the matter of the Louisiana Purchase, and upon the various annexations made by the United States, and recommend that the error in question be corrected upon the next map of the United States to be published by the Department. Upon careful consideration of the matter, as so ably presented by you, your recommendations in the premises meet with my approval, and the correction will be made upon the next map of the United States to be issued by the Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.