History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and ClarkElliot Coues Cosimo, Inc., 1 сент. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 476 It is one of the grandest adventures in American history, and this is the premiere retelling of it. When explorers MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774-1809) and WILLIAM CLARK (1770-1838) embarked on their continent-spanning journey across North America in 1804, they also began keeping daily journals full of detailed accounts of their travels and keen observations of the wildlife, flora, and native peoples they encountered. But it wasn't until 1893 that those journals were edited into this definitive presentation. That four-volume 1893 work is here presented in its entirety in three volumes, and including all of editor Elliot Coues's explanatory notes, chapter synopses, and more. Volume II features the expedition's forging of the mighty Columbia River, encounters with Shoshone, Tillamook, and Chinnook Indians, and much more. As thrilling as it is informative, this is essential reading for anyone fascinated by the opening of the American frontier. American doctor, historian, ornithologist, and author ELLIOTT COUES (1842-1899) helped create the taxonomic nomenclature still in use by zoologists. He wrote the foundational Key to North American Birds (1872) and edited The Travels of Zebulon M. Pike (1895). |
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... feet high , and 125 miles by the trail from Fort Benton . The word Teton is the French téton , breast , teat , nipple , and has nothing to do with Teton , Titon , or Titonwan , aboriginal name of certain Sioux tribes , for whom L. and C ...
... feet high , and 125 miles by the trail from Fort Benton . The word Teton is the French téton , breast , teat , nipple , and has nothing to do with Teton , Titon , or Titonwan , aboriginal name of certain Sioux tribes , for whom L. and C ...
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... feet . All this night and the whole of the following day , June 7th , it rained , the wind being from the southwest , off the mountains ; yet the rivers are falling , and the thermometer is 40 ° above zero . The rain continued till the ...
... feet . All this night and the whole of the following day , June 7th , it rained , the wind being from the southwest , off the mountains ; yet the rivers are falling , and the thermometer is 40 ° above zero . The rain continued till the ...
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... feet , formed of yellow clay , and the tops seemed to be level plains . Finding that the river here bore considerably to the south , and fearful of passing the falls before reaching the Rocky mountains , they now changed their course to ...
... feet , formed of yellow clay , and the tops seemed to be level plains . Finding that the river here bore considerably to the south , and fearful of passing the falls before reaching the Rocky mountains , they now changed their course to ...
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... feet above the water ; when the river is high the stream finds a channel across them 40 yards wide and near the higher parts of the ledge , which then rise about 20 feet and terminate abruptly within 80 or 90 yards of the southern side ...
... feet above the water ; when the river is high the stream finds a channel across them 40 yards wide and near the higher parts of the ledge , which then rise about 20 feet and terminate abruptly within 80 or 90 yards of the southern side ...
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... feet high ; in short , it seems to have worn itself a channel through the solid rock . In the afternoon they " caught in the falls some of both kinds of the white fish , and half a dozen trout 20 from 16 to 23 inches long , precisely ...
... feet high ; in short , it seems to have worn itself a channel through the solid rock . In the afternoon they " caught in the falls some of both kinds of the white fish , and half a dozen trout 20 from 16 to 23 inches long , precisely ...
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CONTENTS | 401 |
CHAPTER XII | 414 |
CHAPTER XIII | 446 |
CHAPTER XIV | 476 |
CHAPTER XV | 508 |
CHAPTER XVI | 541 |
CHAPTER XVII | 571 |
CHAPTER XIX | 653 |
CHAPTER XX | 687 |
CHAPTER XXI | 718 |
CHAPTER XXII | 747 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 773 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 793 |
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Стр. 367 - I might be enabled to give to the enlightened world some just idea of this truly magnifficent and sublimely grand object, which has from the commencement of time been concealed from the view of civilized man; but this was fruitless and vain.