The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 11 - Joseph Whitehouse

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.

About the author

Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska. He is the recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of the Lewis and Clark journals, and he won the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from the University of Nebraska.

Summary

Private Joseph Whitehouse produced an account that stands as the only surviving record by any army private in the Corps of Discovery expedition. This is Whitehouse's journal including entries from a second copy of his journal which extends the narrative for five months beyond previous editions.

Product details

• Authors: William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Joseph Whitehouse
• Assisted by: Gary E Moulton (Editor), Gary E. Moulton (Editor)
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780803280236
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8023-6
• No. of pages: 459
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 226 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Definitive Journals of Lewis &; Definitive Journals of Lewis &; Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Reiseführer, USA Westen, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, TRAVEL / United States / West / General