Imagine that 30,000 troops of the powerful French Army were in transit to North America with ideas of conquest. The United States Army had only 3,000 troops. Join Bill to discover what happened!

Enjoy the story of how the United States came to purchase about 828,000 square miles of land for only...

In early 1803, President Thomas Jefferson convinced Congress to fund exploration of a possible trade route up the Missouri River, across the Rocky Mountains, and down the Columbia River system to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson selected his assistant Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition. Joined b...