Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
Record details
- ISBN: 0684826976
- ISBN: 9780684826974
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Physical Description:
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521 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First Touchstone edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- Copyright: ©1996
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Touchstone book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-506) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Youth (1774-1792) -- Planter (1792-1794) -- Soldier (1794-1800) -- Thomas Jefferson's America 1801 -- President's secretary (1801-1802) -- Origins of the expedition (1750-1802) -- Preparing for the expedition (January-June,1803) -- Washington to Pittsburg (June-August,1803) -- Down the Ohio (September-November,1803) -- Up the MIssissippi to winter camp November,1803-March,1804) -- Ready to depart (April-May 21,1804) -- Up the Missouri (May-July, 1804) -- Entering Indian Country (August,1804) -- Encountering the Sioux (September,1804) -- To the Mandans (Fall 1804) -- Winter at Fort Mandan (December 21,1804-March 21,1805) -- Report from Fort Mandan (March 22-April 6,1805) -- From Fort Mandan to Marias River (April 7-June 2,1805) -- From Marias River to Great Falls (June 3-June 20,1805) -- Great Portage (June 16-July 14,1805) -- Looking for Shoshones (July 15-August 12,1805) -- Over the Continental Divide (August 13-August 31,1805) -- Lewis as ethnographer: Shoshones -- Over the Bitterroots (September 1,- October 6,1805) -- Down the Columbia (October 8- December 7,1805) -- Fort Clatsop (December 8, 1805- March 23,1806) -- Lewis as ethnograper: Clatsops and the Chinooks -- Jefferson and the West (1804-1806) -- Return to the Nez Perce' (March 23,-June 9,1806) -- Lolo Trail (June 10-July 2,1806) -- Marias Exploration (July 3,- July 28,1806) -- Last leg (July 29,-September 22,1806) -- Reporting to the president (September 23,-December 31, 1806) -- Washington (January-March 1807) -- Philadelphia (April-July 1807) -- Virginia (August 1806-March 1807) -- St. Louis (March-December 1808) -- St. Louis (January- August 1809) -- Last voyage (September 3-October 11, 1809). |
Target Audience Note: | 1190 Lexile. 1190L Lexile |
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Subject: | Lewis, Meriwether 1774-1809 Clark, William 1770-1838 Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) Explorers United States Biography |
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