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Documents of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Hardcover)
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Documents of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Hardcover)
Series: Eyewitness to History
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Through its extensive use of primary source materials and
invaluable contextual notes, this book offers a documented history
of one of the most famous adventures in early American history: the
Lewis and Clark expedition. This book is the first to situate the
Lewis and Clark expedition within the political and scientific
ambitions of Thomas Jefferson. It spans a forty-year period in
American history, from 1783–1832, covering Jefferson's early
interest in trying to organize an expedition to explore the
American West through the difficult negotiations of the Louisiana
Purchase, the formation of the "Corps of Discovery," the
expedition's incredible journey into the unknown, and its
aftermath. The story of the expedition is told not just through the
journals and letters of Lewis and Clark, but also through the
firsthand accounts of the expedition's other members, which
included Sacagawea, a Native American woman, and York, an African
American slave. The book features more than 100 primary source
documents, including letters to and from Jefferson, Benjamin Rush,
and others as the expedition was being organized; diary excerpts
during the expedition; and, uniquely, letters documenting the lives
of Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, and York after the expedition.
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