Traces the lives, careers, and achievements of the two men who, under instructions from President Jefferson, explored the American Northwest and the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
William Lighton presents a history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is a brief account and overview written in 1901.?
Beautiful color photographs and illustrations enrich the text and provide a backdrop for the passages Rogers quotes from the journals and letters.
... of women for sex was dependent on the culture of the particular Indian nation that the expedition was visiting. Many of the PLAINS INDIANS were practitioners of polygamy, and warriors would hospitably offer their wives to visitors.
As author Paul Schullery reminds us in his outstanding book Lewis and Clark among the Grizzlies, “Lewis and Clark brought west with them their own idea of the bear”; they overstated the aggressiveness of grizzly bears and as such, ...
Through these tales of adventure, edited and annotated by American Book Award nominee Landon Jones, we meet Indian peoples and see the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and western rivers the way Lewis and Clark first observed them -- ...
Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
With an expert's eye, Verne Huser tells us what it was like to mount and carry out such an expedition. 52 photographs, 4 line drawings, map.
Willard lost his rifle in a large Creek Called Boyer.75 [ floyd ] the Reasen this man Gives of His being with So Small a party is that He Has not Got Horses to Go in the Large praries after the Buflows but Stayes about the Town and ...
Ronda forms a compelling narrative of Lewis and Clark's expedition and their encounters with Indians. A story of discovery and suspense, it is told with a modern concern to understand...
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again.