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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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Description
This sweeping adventure story presents an account of one of the most momentous journeys of American history, Lewis and Clark's expedition up the Missouri. It follows the Lewis and Clark expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through heat-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis' lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, it shows us the American west as Lewis saw it- wild, awesome, and pristinely...
Author
Publisher
River Junction Press
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A Coroner's Inquest held in Tennessee in 1996 has investigated the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis on the Natchez Trace on October 11, 1809 and has heard testimony from leading historians and forensic scientists, examining physical evidence and a wide variety of documents, using theories that include both suicide and murder.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
"Combines adventure, mystery, and tragedy ... a 'Who's Who' of explorers who opened the pathway for an ocean-to-ocean America." 'St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri) The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over' The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members...
Author
Series
American story 1800-1860 volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Meriwether is a young man of genius, power , drive, and single-minded determination to make one of the greatest marches in the world history--to chart the two thousand uncharted miles from the Mississippi to the Missouri to the mysterious Stoney Mountains, then down Colombia to the Pacific.
But President Thomas Jefferson has other plans for the young Meriwether Lewis. It is 1800, and Jefferson calls upon Lewis to be his secretary, ignoring Lewis'...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark across the newly acquired Louisiana Territory from 1804 to 1806 was truly extraordinary. To understand the hardships, dangers, and encounters of these explorers and their Corps of Discovery, students of history should go to the primary source: the journals of Lewis and Clark. This unique biography uses carefully chosen selections from these logs intertwined with well-researched text to explain more...
20) Lewis and Clark
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Offers a brief introduction to the lives and careers of explorers William Clark and Meriweather Lewis.
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