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US territorial acquisition during the 1800s

Map showiing the territorial growth of the continental US 1776 to 1899.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Spanish conquistador on a horse with foal - the origin of the horse in colonial America.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Frederic Remington illustration

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Buffalo Bayou, which became the Houston Ship Canal, 1870s

Steamboat loading cotton on Buffalo Bayou, connected to the Gulf of Mexico, Houston, Texas, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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