The Essential Lewis and Clark

by Jones, Landon Y.

• ISBN13: 9780060011598
• ISBN10: 0060011599
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Through these tales of adventure, edited and annotated by American Book Award nominee Landon Jones, we meet Indian peoples and see the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and western rivers the way Lewis and Clark first observed them -- majestic, pristine, uncharted, and awe-inspiring.

Table of Contents

A Note On The Text	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Corps of Discovery	p. xix
From River Dubois to Two-Thousand-Mile Creek (May 13, 1804-May 5, 1805)	p. 1
From Two-Thousand-Mile Creek to Shoshoni Camp on Lemhi River (May 6, 1805-August 20, 1805)	p. 42
From the Shoshoni Camp on Lemhi River to Fort Clatsop (August 21, 1805-January 9, 1806)	p. 105
From Fort Clatsop to Musquetoe Creek (January 27, 1806-May 7, 1806)	p. 140
From Musquetoe Creek to St. Louis (May 8, 1806-September 26, 1806)	p. 154
Lewis's Short-cut to the Missouri, and Exploration of Maria's River (Lewis's Journal, July 3-August 12, 1806)	p. 168
Clark's Exploration of the Yellowstone	p. 181
Letter from Lewis to Jefferson	p. 198
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