Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Vol 13: Comprehensive Index - Hardcover

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803229429 ISBN 13: 9780803229426

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2001

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. This complete set of the celebrated Nebraska edition incorporates the journals along with a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, including geography, Indian languages, plants, and animals, in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803229429
• ISBN 13: 9780803229426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Moulton Gary E.