Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West / Stephen E. Ambrose.
Record details
- ISBN: 0684826976
- ISBN: 9780684826974
- Physical Description: 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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Stephen Ambrose
At the University of Wisconsin in the 1950s, Stephen Ambrose played football as a Badger for three years. He was a left guard on offense and a middle linebacker on defense, and had he been just 10 pounds heavier, he would have taken a shot at the pros. Instead, his life took an entirely different course.
Soon after completing both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin (which earned him a Ph.D. in history), Stephen Ambrose, a native of Illinois, had his first book published. A biography of Army General Henry W. Halleck, it was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1962 with a first printing of fewer than 1,000 copies. At least one copy must have been purchased, as he received a phone call from a fan, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower had read Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff, and was impressed. The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, and the two-term president of the United States offered Ambrose (then age twenty-eight) an opportunity to assist in the editing of his papers, and ultimately, to write an authorized biography of the president. Needless to say he accepted the assignment. It was this event that would shape his career as a writer.
Ambrose's first biography of President Eisenhower, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, appeared in 1970, the same year he became a full professor at the University of New Orleans. He would go on to write three more biographies of Eisenhower, all of which met with widespread acclaim.
After publishing the series of books on Eisenhower, the subject of his next series of biographies was suggested to Ambrose by his editor, Alice E. Mayhew. Ambrose did not have the same relationship with Richard Nixon as he did with Eisenhower, but he was challenged by the writing project Ms. Mayhew put before him. In 1987, Nixon, The Education of a Politician was published. Although he admits to never liking President Nixon, after writing two more books on this president, he grew to admire and respect him. In fact, Ambrose didn't even meet President Nixon until after the series was in print. This series of books, too, were celebrated with critical acclaim.
Ambrose's desire to write on Lewis and Clark began in the mid 1970s. In the summer of 1976, to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States, Stephen Ambrose, his wife and their five children, traveled the Lemhi Pass in the Rocky Mountains, where Meriwether Lewis was the first nonnative American to cross the Continental Divide in August 1805. On this trip, Stephen and his wife took turns reading to their children from the diaries of Lewis and Clark. Being so moved by this uniquely American experience, his family has repeated it every summer since -- visiting Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Kansas, or the Dakotas, and following some piece of the trail. The family has canoed more than 165 miles down the Missouri, backpacked and horse- backed along the Lolo Trail, and turned in at night at various Lewis and Clark campsites. After the publication of D-Day: June 6, 1944, Ambrose began to focus all of his attention of what would become Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West.
Stephen Ambrose, now a retired professor from the University of New Orleans, lives in the Old South community of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, in his home, Merry Weather. He also maintains a home in Helena, Montana, along the trail of Lewis and Clark.
OTHER WORKS BY STEPHEN E. AMBROSE:
- Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff
- Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of
Two American Warriors - The Supreme Commander: The War Years of
General Dwight D. Eisenhower - Eisenhower: The President
- Nixon: Ruin and Recovery
- Band of Brothers
- D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle
of WorId War II
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Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.