What remains is "inland" America, with only a short stretch of Gulf coast as its own outlet to the world seas. Or as the map ...

Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States ... after the United States does all of its contiguous territorial expansion within North America, it starts claiming overseas ...

The first map of the United States drawn and printed in America by an American was, until a few years ago, hardly known at all. Only seven original copies exist, and the best preserved is now on ...