Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. Their names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This book relates that adventure from it's inception through it's completion as well as the effect the expedition had upon the history of the United States.
Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
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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 -- ...
Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.
"In graphic novel format, tells the dramatic story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the unmapped American West"--Provided by publisher.
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clarkâs expedition across the continent and back again.
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 ...
Action-packed account of perilous journey made by undaunted men who faced hostile Indians, prairie fires, floods, famine, sub-zero weather, and other perils to chart the vast unknown lands of the Louisiana Purchase.
A fictionalized account of the historic overland expedition to the Pacific Coast and back, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.