"In graphic novel format, tells the dramatic story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the unmapped American West"--Provided by publisher.
Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
Lewis provided a quick list of “Aquatic birds,” or those, he explained, that obtained their subsistence from the water: great blue heron (“large blue and brown heron”), osprey (“fishing hawk”), belted kingfisher (“blue crested fisher”), ...
Volume 1 of the classic edition of Lewis and Clark's day-by-day journals that later became the basis for U.S. claims to Oregon and the West.
In 2003, Americans began celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806), a journey of discovery that proved a seminal moment in the history of the exploration of the North American continent.
Nathaniel Hale Pryor, husband to an Osage woman; and York, Clark's slave, who was freed after the expedition. The men who were instrumental to the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition come to life in this volume.
Through its extensive use of primary source materials and invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: With Related Documents, 1783-1854
Complete with maps, excerpts from Lewis and Clark's journals, and images of artifacts, this volume tells a timeless tale of adventure, hardship, and triumph.
For me thebook that changed everything was John L. Allen's Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Imageof the American Northwest, first published by the Universityof Illinois Press in1975. Reading it set me to studying ...
. Neither unduly adulatory or revisionist, this is a story which old and young, historian or buff, will enjoy and profit from."—Pacific Historia "The story of Sacagawea has the kind of mystery about it that insures that it will be with us ...