Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c
Author: John Kirk Townsend
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 368
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Author: John Kirk Townsend
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meriwether Lewis
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lewis Ransome Freeman
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDown the Columbia by Lewis Ransome Freeman, first published in 1921, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Meriwether Lewis
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rex Ziak
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Published: 2005
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ISBN-13: 9780972531528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A unique fold-out guide, mapping day-by-day Lewis and Clark's journey from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean-- and back"--Cover.
Author: Keith G. Hay
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780881926200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel the lower Columbia on a history tour with this helpful guide, and imagine what this awesome, untamed terrain may have looked like to Lewis and Clark.
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING
Published: 2011-11
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1937624447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis' lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it -- wild, awsome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect choice. He endured incredible hardships and saw incredible sights, including vast herds of buffalo and Indian tribes that had had no previous contact with white men. He and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a colorful and realistic backdrop for the expedition. Lewis saw the North American continent before any other white man; Ambrose describes in detail native peoples, weather, landscape, science, everything the expedition encountered along the way, through Lewis's eyes. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson's. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. This is a book about a hero. This is a book about national unity. But it is also a tragedy. When Lewis returned to Washington in the fall of 1806, he was a national hero. But for Lewis, the expedition was a failure. Jefferson had hoped to find an all-water route to the Pacific with a short hop over the Rockies-Lewis discovered there was no such passage. Jefferson hoped the Louisiana Purchase would provide endless land to support farming-but Lewis discovered that the Great Plains were too dry. Jefferson hoped there was a river flowing from Canada into the Missouri-but Lewis reported there was no such river, and thus no U.S. claim to the Canadian prairie. Lewis discovered the Plains Indians were hostile and would block settlement and trade up the Missouri. Lewis took to drink, engaged in land speculation, piled up debts he could not pay, made jealous political enemies, and suffered severe depression. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.
Author: Henry C. Westergaard
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meriwether Lewis
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLewis and Clark's Expedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was the first governmental exploration of the "Great West." The history of this undertaking is the personal narrative and official report of the first white men who crossed the continent between and British and Spanish possessions.
Author: Meriwether Lewis
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Published: 2017-06-24
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9783337191443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of the Expedition - Under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.