Book Description
Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Laurie Myers
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780805063684
Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307425819
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old ones into historical focus. Thomas P. Slaughter interrogates the explorers’ dreams, how they wrote and what they aimed to possess, their interactions with animals, Indians, and each other, their sense of themselves as leaders and men, and why they feared that they had failed their nation and President. Slaughter’s Lewis and Clark are more confused, frightened, courageous, and flawed than in previous accounts. They are more human, their expedition more dramatic, and thus their story is more revealing about our own relationships to history and myth.
Author : Landon Y. Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2002-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0060011599
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. 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 -- majestic, pristine, uncharted, and awe-inspiring.
Author : Thomas Power Lowry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803229593
One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804?6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition?s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. ø Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition?s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark?s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted. ø Lowry?s careful study of the explorers? journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.
Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803290195
Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""
Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307487458
At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who offers a haunting essay evoking the voices of the past; to Debra Magpie Earling’s illumination of her ancestral family, their survival, and the magic they use to this day; to Mark N. Trahant’s attempt to trace his own blood back to Clark himself; and Roberta Conner’s comparisons of the explorer’s journals with the accounts of the expedition passed down to her. Incisive and compelling, these essays shed new light on our understanding of this landmark journey into the American West.
Author : Meriwether Lewis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2541 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
"The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806" stands as a seminal historical work documenting the pioneering expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark across the uncharted expanses of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Through detailed entries, the journals vividly portray the expedition's challenges, triumphs, and encounters with Native American tribes, offering invaluable insights into the exploration of the American West. Written with a keen eye for detail and a profound appreciation for the natural world, Lewis and Clark's observations of geography, flora, and fauna remain unparalleled, providing a comprehensive record of the era. A cornerstone of American history and adventure literature, this work embodies the spirit of exploration and serves as a timeless testament to human perseverance.
Author : Rod Gragg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Lewis and Clark Expedition
ISBN : 9781401600754
Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of the United States. It identified an array of native peoples, spectacular places, fascinating creatures, and extraordinary flora unknown in "civilized" America. It defined the American nation as a land stretching from coast to coast-and it launched the spread of population in a mighty frontier migration unlike anything ever witnessed in America before or since. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery contains 19 chapters, detailing the expedition chronologically. A "museum in a book," this fascinating volume contains re-creations of original documents such as diary entries, letters, maps, and sketches-all meticulously reproduced so that the reader can actually handle and examine them. Among the documents included in the book are: The actual letter of credit Jefferson wrote to Lewis committing the U.S. government to pay for the expedition. The code Thomas Jefferson provided to Lewis for sending secret messages. Clark's sketch of the technique some Indians used to flatten their heads, a sign of prestige. Clark's letter of gratitude to Sacagawea, a Shoshone teenager who helped the expedition. A newspaper account of the expedition's return to St. Louis.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780792264736
Chronicles the epic journey of Lewis and Clark across uncharted wilderness to the Pacific Ocean, in a narrative that incorporates entries from the explorers' journals and a new preliminary essay on making a filmed recreation.
Author : Ron Lowery
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : Lewis and Clark Expedition
ISBN : 9780974920702
View a 22-minute selection of images from the book Chasing Lewis & Clark Across America and another 23 minutes of behind the scenes video. From virgin wilderness to cities, this photographic slide show--set to stirring music--is like a tightly woven tapestry of America. Video portion includes plane'ss construction, performance, take-offs plus project planning and life on the trail.