The vast region that was then known as Upper Louisiana--the territory stretching from the Mississippi to the Pacific--was owned by the Spaniards, but only in shadowy fashion, and could not have been held by any European power against the sturdy westward pressure of the rifle-bearing settlers.
Roosevelt discusses the tenuous hold of Spain over Upper Louisiana amidst the relentless push of American settlers.
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