Author: Meriwether LewisPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 547
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The Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Clark
Author: Meriwether LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804
Author: Meriwether LewisPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803228696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
"The journey of the Corps of Discovery, under the command of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, across the American West to the Pacific Ocean and back in the years 1804-1806 seems to me to have been our first really American adventure, one that also produced our only really American epic, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, now at last available in a superbly edited, easily read edition in twelve volumes (of an eventual thirteen), almost two centuries after the Corps of Discovery set out. . . . This important text has not been fully appreciated for what it is because of two centuries of incomplete and inadequate editing. All three editions previous to this excellent one from the University of Nebraska . . . were flawed by significant omission. . . . Thus my gratitude to the present editor, Gary Moulton, and his assistant editor, Thomas Dunlay, for bringing what I believe to be a national epic into plain view at last. . . . For almost two hundred years their [Lewis' and Clark's] strong words waited, there but not there, printed but not read: our silent epic. But words can wait: now the captains' writings have at last spilled out, and fully, in this regal edition. When the Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition appeared in 1983, critics hailed it as a publishing landmark. This eagerly awaited second volume of the new Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition begins the actual journals of those explorers whose epic expedition still enthralls Americans. Instructed by President Jefferson to keep meticulous records bearing on the geography, ethnology, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and four of their men filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations during their expedition of 1804–6. The result was in is a national treasure: a complete look at the Great Plains, the Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest, reported by men who were intelligent and well-prepared, at a time when almost nothing was known about those regions so newly acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. Volume 2 includes Lewis’s and Clark’s journals for the period from August 1803, when Lewis left Pittsburgh to join Clark farther down the Ohio River, to August 1804, when the Corps of Discovery camped near the Vermillion River in present South Dakota. The general introduction by Gary E. Moulton discusses the history of the expedition, the journal-keeping methods of Lewis and Clark, and the editing and publishing history of the journals from the time of Lewis and Clark’s return. Superseding the last edition published early in this century, the current edition brings together new materials discovered since then. It greatly expands and updates the annotation to take account of the most recent scholarship on the many subjects touched on by the journals.
The Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Capts Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri...
Author: Meriwether LewisThe Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri
Author: Meriwether LewisPublisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Journals of the Expedition under the command of Capt.s Lewis and Clark
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark are "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future" (Bernard DeVoto). In 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward--and that a "Voyage of Discovery" would be necessary to determine the nature of the frontier--President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, Lewis mapped rivers, traced the principal waterways to the sea, and established the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept this journal: a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the native tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River, that has become an incomparable contribution to the literature ofexploration and the writing of natural history.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: November 2, 1805-March 22, 1806
Author: Gary E. MoultonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803228931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The first five volumes of the new edition of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition have been widely heralded as a lasting achievement in the study of western exploration. The sixth volume begins on November 2, 1805, in the second year of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s epic journey. It covers the last leg of the party’s route from the Cascades of the Columbia River to the Pacific Coast and their stay at Fort Clatsop, near the river’s mouth, until the spring of 1806. Travel and exploration, described in the early part, were hampered by miserable weather, and the enforced idleness in winter quarters permitted detailed record keeping. The journals portray the party’s interaction with the Indians of the lower Columbia River and the coast, particularly the Chinooks, Clatsops, Wahkiakums, Cathlamets, and Tillamooks. No other volume in this edition has such a wealth of ethnographic and natural history materials, most of it apparently written by Lewis and copied by Clark, and accompanied by sketches of plants, animals, and Indians and their canoes, implements, and clothing. Incorporating a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, from Indian languages to plants and animals to geographical and historical contexts, this new edition expands and updates the annotation of the last edition, published early in the twentieth century.
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark Vol. II
Author: Lewis MeriwetherPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752410337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark Vol. II by Lewis Meriwether
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark
Author: Meriwether LewisPublisher:
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Category : Columbia River
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Author: Meriwether Clark, William LewisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734044219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 158218657X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This set was first published in 1904 from the manuscripts of the American Philosophical Society together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark and from other sources including notebooks, letters and maps, and the journals of Charles Floyd and Joseph Whitehouse.