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In 1803, the United States brokered one of history’s biggest real-estate bargains: the purchase of 828,000 square miles of land from France — for a mere 4 cents an acre. This territorial acquisition nearly doubled the fledgling country’s size and opened up the western half of the continent for exploration. Known today as the Louisiana View Website VIP Subscription

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