Excerpt from Biographical History of Cloud County, Kansas: Biographies of Representative Citizens; Illustrated With Portraits of Prominent People, Cuts of Homes, Stock, Etc The boundary line on the south and southwest touched the Spanish Mexican possessions, and on the east the Spanish province of \vest Florida. On the west shore of the Mississippi it extended to its source embracing all the Missouri valley, and stretched north of the Spanish American possessions across the Rocky mountains to the Pacific ocean, and as far north on the Pacific coast as the British possessions. For this vast domain the United States paid France the sum of 000. The province of Louisiana thus acquired comprised square miles. 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.