The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 4 - From Fort Mandan to Three Forks

President Thomas Jefferson 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 the 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.

About the author

Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of these journals.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: William Clark, Meriwether Lewis
• Assisted by: Gary E Moulton (Editor), Gary E. Moulton (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2002
• EAN: 9780803280113
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8011-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Definitive Journals of Lewis a; Definitive Journals of Lewis a
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries