The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
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Author: Meriwether Lewis, William ClarkEditor: Bernard DeVoto
Foreword: Stephen E. Ambrose
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-30
ISBN: 0395859964
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Mariner Books
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- ISBN13: 9780395859964
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Book Review: An amazing historic journey related by the travelers themselves
Summary: 5 Stars
It's amazing they pulled it off and lost only one man (and got into a real fight with the natives only once) and despite all the incredible difficulties wrote it all down. There is no substitute for getting it directly from the horse's mouth. Bernard DeVoto does a great job keeping the story flowing with footnotes, editorial explanations and maps. This book will help you connect the dots at all those Lewis and Clark displays when you take a rest in the West from driving.
Summary of The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire and created desire: the desire of the westering nation."Antebellum Books
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