It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Informationen zum Autor Erin H. Turner is a writer and editor living in Helena, Montana. Her other books include More Than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women, It Happened in Northern California, and It Happened in Yellowstone. She has a degree in history and gender and women's studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and has traveled extensively throughout the West. Klappentext It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition features fascinating events from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's 1803-1805 expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back, including the first democratic vote west of the Mississippi, the remarkable and unexpected reunion of their Indian guide Sacagawea with the clan brother she hadn't seen in years, the day they found a huge whale on the beach, and their discovery of Carolina parakeets—a now extinct species.

Product details

• Authors: Erin H. Turner, Turner Erin H.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781493023462
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-2346-2
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: It Happened in the West
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, TRAVEL / United States / West / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Expeditions: popular accounts, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states