Excerpt from Four American Explorers: Captain Meriwether Lewis; Captain William Clark; General John C. Fremont; Dr. Elisha K. Kane; A Book for Young Americans To the entire region drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries he gave the name of Louisiana, in honor\ of the king. This region included the greater part of What is now the United States. It extended from the Alleghany Mountains to the Rockies, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. 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.