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The Louisiana Purchase has been described as the “greatest deal in real estate history.” Real estate agents today would cringe at the thought of how small the commission would have been considering the acreage!

• In 1682 French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed all of the territory drained by the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada for France. He named it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV.

• The official ceremonies for the transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France on November 30, 1803 and then from France to the U.S. on December 20, 1803 were held in The Cabildo Sala Capitular (Capitol Room) in New Orleans. The Cabildo now houses the Louisiana State Museum.

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• The huge purchase started as a negotiation for New Orleans and Western Florida, which actually stretched across the Gulf Coast to New Orleans and Baton Rouge at the time. Access to the port of New Orleans and the Mississippi River for trade and sustainability of the new United States depended on this.

• The purchase of the Louisiana territory was for 827,987 square miles (2,144,476 sq km) for only $15,000,000!

Even in those days it was a super deal! This acquisition doubled the size of the ‘new” country and greatly increased its status and economic power.

• President Jefferson had appointed Robert R. Livingston, U.S. Minister to France and authorized him to purchase the City of New Orleans, portions of the east bank of the Mississippi River and free navigation of the river to allow for U.S. commerce. He was only authorized to spend up to $2,000,000. Now, he didn’t have email, a cell phone (or any phone for that matter!) so when news started leaking about possible revocation of the use of the port of New Orleans, decisions had to be made.

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• President Jefferson actually sent a special envoy, James Monroe, to assist Livingston and boosted the authorized spending to $10,000,000. When negotiations started, quick decisions were necessary.

• Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of France, decided he wanted to “unload” the entire Louisiana Territory!

His ministers were ordered to find out what the U.S. was willing to pay for the entire area. Livingston and Monroe were confused and not sure what to do since this was beyond their authority. With quick thinking, knowing it could take months to get approval from the president, they decided to open immediate negotiations.

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• The reason Napoleon wanted to make such a fast sale was that he wanted to boost his powerful army in Europe. He added the money from the sale of the Louisiana Territory to his war chest. Between 1805 and 1807 he became master over most of Europe.

• Political posturing occurred then just as it does now.

The Federalist Party, Jefferson’s opponent, was totally against the huge purchase. It helped the U.S. relations with France but definitely hurt standing with Britain.

There were even plans for some of the northern states to secede from the United States. They considered the western real estate to be worthless desert and were not for westward expansion. Hmmm…wonder what they would say today?!

• The Louisiana Purchase lands contained all or parts of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, nearly all of Kansas, the parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains, the portions of southern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan and southern Alberta that drain into the Missouri River, and Louisiana on both sides of the Mississippi River, including the most important city of New Orleans.

• New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718 and its location as the southernmost major city on the Mississippi River made it extremely valuable. It was made the capital of New France in 1722. Spain gained control in 1763 but French influence still, to this day, remains strong. A lot of the French influence came from Acadians, who were Canadians who refused to pledge allegiance to the King of England and came south. Cajuns are the descendents of the Acadians.

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• Another place to visit that has a lot of history about the Louisiana Purchase is Louisiana Purchase State Park, but it’s in Arkansas. A National Historic Landmark is at the junction of Lee, Monroe and Phillips Counties to mark the initial point from which surveys of the property acquired in the Louisiana Purchase were initiated. Two surveyors in 1921 discovered the gum trees that were marked by the first surveyors in 1815.

• In the history of the United States, the Louisiana Purchase agreement is considered by many to be second only to the Declaration of Independence in importance.

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• When Louis was only 12 years old on New Year’s Eve, 1913, he was caught firing a gun in the air. He was sentenced to a home for boys. This incident turned into a positive one in that Peter Davis, the home’s musical director, saw that Louis had great musical potential. Peter was the first real mentor for Louis and taught him to play the cornet. When Louis was 14 he was released from the home and started seeking out the good music in New Orleans.

• Joe “King” Oliver with the Kid Ory Band was a favorite band for Louis. Oliver became the next mentor to influence him. He was 17 at the time.

Louis played with several bands in nightclubs and bars in New Orleans • After several years Louis moved to St. Louis and played on paddlewheel boats on the Mississippi River with Fate Marable’s band, where the wealthy riverboat crowd appreciated his great talent.

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When I asked him why, he said, 'Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said 'oh crap.' Cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted.'

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