When Thomas Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he needed a team to survey that vast, unknown expanse of land. He chose Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Together, they led the Corps of Discovery, a team of intrepid explorers across a wild, dangerous country. Readers will understand the impact Lewis and Clark's expedition had on American history in this detailed account. Follow their journey across roaring rivers, vast plains, and untrod paths, and learn about the Native Americans they met, the fierce wildlife that threatened their lives, and the hunger, sickness, and injury that dogged them from start to finish.
Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
William Lighton presents a history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It is a brief account and overview written in 1901.?
An important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition
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.
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 -- ...
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.
Provides a history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, including excerpts from journals that Lewis and Clark kept during the journey, and describes how historical documents such as these can be restored and preserved.
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 ...