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The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 across America from
Pittsburg to the Pacific and back was the third recorded
transcontinental journey. President Jefferson had negotiated the
Louisiana Purchase of over two million square kilometres from the
French in 1803, and the aim of the expedition was to investigate
the territory involved. He commissioned a Corps of Discovery as a
scientific and military expedition to survey the acquisition,
appointing his aide Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) to lead it. It was
hoped to discover that the Missouri and other rivers could be used
for transcontinental communication and transport, and to assess the
natural resources of the area. Some of the party returned east with
specimens, reports and a map, while the remainder reached the
Pacific in December 1805. Volume 1 covers the departure and
contacts with various Indian tribes, as far as Great Falls,
Montana, in June 1805.
The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 across America from
Pittsburg to the Pacific and back was the third recorded
transcontinental journey. President Jefferson had negotiated the
Louisiana Purchase of over two million square kilometres from the
French in 1803, and the aim of the expedition was to investigate
the territory involved. He commissioned a Corps of Discovery as a
scientific and military expedition to survey the acquisition,
appointing his aide Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) to lead it. It was
hoped to discover that the Missouri and other rivers could be used
for transcontinental communication and transport, and to assess the
natural resources of the area. Some of the party returned east with
specimens, reports and a map, while the remainder reached the
Pacific in December 1805. Volume 2 covers the journey from Three
Forks, Montana, the source of the Missouri, to the Pacific, and
their winter quarters.
The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 across America from
Pittsburg to the Pacific and back was the third recorded
transcontinental journey. President Jefferson had negotiated the
Louisiana Purchase of over two million square kilometres from the
French in 1803, and the aim of the expedition was to investigate
the territory involved. He commissioned a Corps of Discovery as a
scientific and military expedition to survey the acquisition,
appointing his aide Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) to lead it. It was
hoped to discover that the Missouri and other rivers could be used
for transcontinental communication and transport, and to assess the
natural resources of the area. Some of the party returned east with
specimens, reports and a map, while the remainder reached the
Pacific in December 1805. Volume 3 covers the return journey,
during which Lewis and Clark separated to survey more of the
tributaries of the Missouri.
Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering
camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the
Pacific Ocean. In this riveting account, editor Gary E. Moulton
blends the narrative highlights of the Lewis and Clark journals so
that the voices of the enlisted men and of Native peoples are heard
alongside the words of the captains. All their triumphs and terrors
are here-the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison on the
plains; the tensions and admiration in the first meetings with
Indian peoples; Lewis's rapture at the stunning beauty of the Great
Falls; the fear the captains felt when a devastating illness befell
their Shoshone interpreter, Sacagawea; the ordeal of crossing the
Continental Divide; the kidnapping and rescuing of Lewis's dog,
Seaman; miserable days of cold and hunger; and Clark's joy at
seeing the Pacific. The cultural differences between the corps and
Native Americans make for living drama that at times provokes
laughter but more often is poignant and, at least once, tragic.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
This volume 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 were hampered by miserable weather. While in
winter quarters, Lewis wrote detailed reports on natural phenomena
and Indian life. These descriptions were accompanied by sketches of
plants and animals as well as of Indians and their canoes, tools,
and clothing.
Lively and curious, possessing a keen eye for detail and a knack
for skin-dressing, Private Joseph Whitehouse produced an account
that stands as the only surviving record by any army private in the
Corps of Discovery expedition. In simple and well-paced sentences
he painted full portraits of the unusual group of men he
accompanied on one of the greatest adventures in American history.
Whitehouse's journal is published here in full for the first
time-including entries from a second copy of his journal that
extend the narrative for five months beyond previous editions.
Although Whitehouse's career after the expedition was checkered and
he disappeared after 1817, his vivid eyewitness account will long
be remembered. Whitehouse's journal joins the celebrated Nebraska
edition of the complete journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition,
which feature a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all
aspects of the expedition from geography to Indian cultures and
languages to plants and animals.
The dependable and matter-of-fact John Ordway was one of the
mainstays of the Corps of Discovery, promoted early on to sergeant
and serving as an able leader during the captains' absence.
Fascinated by the peoples and places he encountered, Ordway became
the most faithful journalist on the expedition--recording
information not found elsewhere and making an entry for every day
during the expedition. Ordway later married and became a prosperous
owner of two plantations in Missouri. His honest and informative
account, which remained undiscovered for a century, offers an
unforgettable glimpse of an enlisted man's experiences and
observations as he and the Corps of Discovery embarked on the
journey of a lifetime. In contrast to Ordway's extensive chronicle
stands the far-too-brief but intriguingly detailed eyewitness
account of Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only member to die on the
expedition. The journals of John Ordway and Charles Floyd are part
of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the complete journals of the
Lewis and Clark expedition, which feature a wide range of new
scholarship on all aspects of the expedition from geography to
Indian cultures and languages to plants and animals.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
In April 1805 Lewis and Clark and their party set out from Fort
Mandan following the Missouri River westward. This volume recounts
their travels through country never before explored by white
people. With new personnel, including the Shoshone Indian woman
Sacagawea, her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, and their baby,
nicknamed Pomp, the party spent the rest of the spring and early
summer toiling up the Missouri. Along the way they portaged the
difficult Great Falls, encountered grizzly bears, cataloged new
species of plants and animals, and mapped rivers and streams.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
This last volume recounts the expedition's experiences as they
continued their journey homeward from present-day Idaho and the
party divided for separate exploration. Lewis probed the northern
extent of the Louisiana Purchase on the Marias River, while Clark
traveled southeast toward the Yellowstone to explore the river and
make contact with local Indians. Lewis's party suffered from bad
luck: they encountered grizzlies, horse thieves, and the
expedition's only violent encounter with Native inhabitants, the
Piegan Blackfeet. Lewis was also wounded in a hunting accident. The
two parties eventually reunited below the mouth of the Yellowstone
and arrived back in St. Louis to a triumphal welcome in September
1806.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
After a rainy winter, the Corps of Discovery turned homeward in
March 1806 from Fort Clatsop on the mouth of the Columbia River.
Detained by winter snows, they camped among the friendly Nez Perces
in modern west-central Idaho. Lewis and Clark attended to sick
Indians and continued their scientific observations while others in
the party hunted and socialized with Native peoples.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
The late-summer and fall months of 1805 were the most difficult
period of Lewis and Clark's journey. This volume documents their
travels from the Three Forks of the Missouri River in present-day
Montana to the Cascades of the Columbia River on today's
Washington-Oregon border, including the expedition's progress over
the rugged Bitterroot Mountains, along the nearly impenetrable Lolo
Trail. Along the way, the explorers encounter Shoshones, Flatheads,
Nez Perces, and other Indian tribes, some of whom had never before
met white people.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
This volume includes Lewis's and Clark's journals beginning in
August 1803, when Lewis left Pittsburgh to join Clark farther down
the Ohio River. The two men and several recruits camped near the
mouth of the Missouri River for five months of training, acquiring
supplies and equipment, and gathering information from travelers
about the trip upriver. They started up the Missouri in May 1804.
This volume ends in August, when the Corps of Discovery camped near
the Vermillion River in present-day South Dakota.
An accomplished carpenter and boat builder, Patrick Gass proved to
be an invaluable and well-liked member of the Lewis and Clark
expedition. Promoted to sergeant after the death of Charles Floyd,
Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the building
of Forts Mandan and Clatsop. His records of those forts and of the
earth lodges of the Mandans and Hidatsas are particularly detailed
and useful. Gass was the last survivor of the Corps of Discovery,
living until 1870--long enough to see trains cross a continent that
he had helped open. His engaging and detailed journal became the
first published account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Gass's
journal joins the celebrated Nebraska edition of the complete
journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, which feature a wide
range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition
from geography to Indian cultures and languages to plants and
animals.
Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
This volume consists of journals, primarily by Clark, that cover
the expedition's route up the Missouri River to Fort Mandan in
present-day North Dakota and its frigid winter encampment there. It
describes the party's encounters with and observations of area
Indian tribes. Lewis and Clark collected critical information about
traveling westward from Native Americans during this winter. This
volume also includes miscellaneous material from the Corps of
Discovery's first year.
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