The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark: Through the Rockies to the Cascades - Couverture souple

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

 
9780803280120: The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark: Through the Rockies to the Cascades
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803280122 ISBN 13 : 9780803280120
Editeur : Bison Books, 2002

Synopsis

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West.

The late-summer and fall months of 1805 were the most difficult period of Lewis and Clark's journey. This volume documents their travels from the Three Forks of the Missouri River in present-day Montana to the Cascades of the Columbia River on today's Washington-Oregon border, including the expedition's progress over the rugged Bitterroot Mountains, along the nearly impenetrable Lolo Trail. Along the way, the explorers encounter Shoshones, Flatheads, Nez Perces, and other Indian tribes, some of whom had never before met white people.

Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of these journals.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of these journals.

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803280122
ISBN 13 
9780803280120
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
415
Éditeur
Moulton Gary E.
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