This selection captures the friendship between the leaders, the trials that required acts of heroism, and reveals the human dimension of the group.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Nature Library, Penguin)

History

Lewis, Meriwether

Clark, William

Americas

Penguin??Books

Journals of Lewis and Clark (Classic, Nature, Penguin)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank—not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penguin Classics

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806, Vol. 4: Printed From the Original Manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society and by Direction of Its Committee on

Travel

Forgotten Books

History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, Across the Rocky Mountains, Down the Columbia River to the Pacific in 1804-6; Volume 2

Allen,Paul

Regional U.S.

Franklin Classics

In 1804 Lewis and Clark set off to explore the new lands of the Louisiana Purchase. They were acting as the eyes and ears of President Thomas Jefferson, who had an insatiable curiosity about what lay between the Mississippi and the Pacific. One contingency for which they were not prepared was the awesome geography of the Rocky Mountains. Including excerpts from Lewis and Clark's journals and putting their scientific achievements in context, David Hawke presents a riveting story of this dramatic journey.

Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

HAWKE, David Freeman

Literature & Fiction

Norton

History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis & Clarke to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the ... order of the Government of the United States

Professionals & Academics

AMS Press

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Ayer Co. Pub

This two hundredth anniversary edition recreates the epic expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, describing their trek through the wilderness between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast, and the natural wonders, perils, people, and places they encountered along the way. Original.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

United States

Signet Classics

Signet

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