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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... obliged to attack him swimming , there was still some chance of his life ; he therefore turned short , plunged into the river about waist - deep , and facing about presented the point of his espontoon . The bear arrived at the water's ...
... obliged to attack him swimming , there was still some chance of his life ; he therefore turned short , plunged into the river about waist - deep , and facing about presented the point of his espontoon . The bear arrived at the water's ...
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... obliged to employ in the other parts of the work is extremely soft and brittle . The mast of the white periogue , which we mean to leave behind , supplied us with two axle- trees . There are vast quantities of buffalo feeding on the ...
... obliged to employ in the other parts of the work is extremely soft and brittle . The mast of the white periogue , which we mean to leave behind , supplied us with two axle- trees . There are vast quantities of buffalo feeding on the ...
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... oblige us to make the portage farther from the river . After this , there being no other obstacle , he went to the [ Missouri ] river where [ oppo- site mouth of Medicine river ] he had first struck it , and took its courses and ...
... oblige us to make the portage farther from the river . After this , there being no other obstacle , he went to the [ Missouri ] river where [ oppo- site mouth of Medicine river ] he had first struck it , and took its courses and ...
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... obliged to take as much baggage as we could carry on our backs down to the river , where we formed a camp in a small grove of timber , opposite the Whitebear islands . Here the banks on both sides of the river are handsome , level , and ...
... obliged to take as much baggage as we could carry on our backs down to the river , where we formed a camp in a small grove of timber , opposite the Whitebear islands . Here the banks on both sides of the river are handsome , level , and ...
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... obliged to halt and rest frequently ; at almost every stop- ping - place they fall , and many of them are asleep in an instant ; yet no one complains , and they go on with great cheerfulness . At the camp [ of these men , midway in the ...
... obliged to halt and rest frequently ; at almost every stop- ping - place they fall , and many of them are asleep in an instant ; yet no one complains , and they go on with great cheerfulness . At the camp [ of these men , midway in the ...
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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.